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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables
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Gabriel L. Somlo |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Mar 2014 21:57:00 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 06:04:32PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > What really convinced me to go for all this additional work was
> > Laszlo's suggestion that this might help if/when we try to start
> > trying to use UEFI/tianocore/ovmf instead of SeaBIOS.
>
> Let me be a bit more precise... :)
>
> Moving SMBIOS generation from SeaBIOS to qemu (similarly to ACPI) would
> benefit:
> - SeaBIOS (IIRC Kevin had implied his preference for this),
> - OVMF (no need to play catch-up field-wise),
> - other boot firmware.
>
> I think I didn't suggest using OVMF *instead of* SeaBIOS. :)
Sorry if I unintentionally misrepresented what you said, I was trying
to paraphrase precisely what you just said above :)
> In any case, I think if you can pull of this migration of SMBIOS tables,
> that would be a huge service to the community. I should have reviewed
> your series but it seemed hard, and I didn't have to "look very far" for
> other work :), so I postponed it. Then Gerd said "please split it up
> into smaller patches", which I can only agree with! :)
I'll send the current set of seven patches, which basically replace
the way types 0 and 1 are handled with building full tables, and adds
the option to request that a type 2 table be built.
I'd like to get the rest of what SeaBIOS builds by default (types 3+)
in before the 2.0 freeze (BTW, how much longer do I have for that?),
but while I start hacking on that I figured I'd help you help me by
making it easy to review what I have so far... :)
Thanks again,
--Gabriel
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 (RFC)] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 (RFC)] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Kevin O'Connor, 2014/03/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 (RFC)] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Gerd Hoffmann, 2014/03/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 (RFC)] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 (RFC)] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Gerd Hoffmann, 2014/03/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 (RFC)] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 (RFC)] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Laszlo Ersek, 2014/03/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables,
Gabriel L. Somlo <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Laszlo Ersek, 2014/03/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: SMBIOS: Build full smbios tables, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] SMBIOS: Update all table definitions to smbios spec v2.3, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/08
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] SMBIOS: Rename smbios_set_type1_defaults() for more general use, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/08
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] SMBIOS: Streamline setting smbios defaults with macro, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/08
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] SMBIOS: Replace type collision check mechanism with bitmaps, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/08
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] SMBIOS: Add code to build full smbios tables, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/08
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] SMBIOS: Build full tables for types 0 and 1, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/08
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] SMBIOS: Remove unused code for passing individual fields to bios, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/03/08