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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V15 4/5] i386: add a Virtual Machine Generation
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V15 4/5] i386: add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device |
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Thu, 28 May 2015 15:24:18 +0200 |
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:00:52PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 28/05/2015 14:21, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > And the way I can fix it would be...? Is there another memory region I can
> > > use?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Gal.
> >
> > I think we hammered out an interesting alternative off-list: get hold of
> > some AddressRegionNVS memory and copy data from MMIO or port io over
> > there when you get an interrupt.
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> That doesn't work because there's no way to get the base address of a
> DataTableRegion.
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> You could use a linker ADD_POINTER command, but it wouldn't work for
> UEFI.
Hmm why not? UEFI runs these as well.
> So I think it's best to just stay with this one. If we do find
> something better we can always change it later.
>
> Paolo