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Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] Commit 77af8a2b95b79699de650965d5228772743efe


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] Commit 77af8a2b95b79699de650965d5228772743efe84 breaks Windows 2000 support
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:26:08 +0200
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On 27/07/2017 10:39, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> C - We'd be introducing "shared ownership" of the acpi
>>> tables.  Some
>>>     of the tables would be produced by QEMU and some of them by
>>>     SeaBIOS.  Explaining when and why to future developers would be
>>> a
>>>     challenge.
>>
>> The advantage is that the same shared ownership is already present in
>> OVMF.  The RSDP/RSDT/XSDT are entirely created by the firmware in
>> OVMF.
> 
> Hmm, seabios could do the same then, and we would not need a lockstep
> update?

That's fine by me too.  I'll try to make a patch.

Paolo



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