[Qemu-devel] Re: How to use -acpitable to add a SLIC-table?

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:36:06PM +0200, Stefan Hellermann wrote:
> Gleb Natapov schrieb:
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 06:35:16PM +0100, Stefan Hellermann wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> how can I use the -acpitable parameter to add a SLIC-table to the
> >> qemu-bios dynamically?
> >>
> >> I think I need a file with the SLIC-data, but how can I extract this
> >> data out of my BIOS from my host-machine for example?
> >>
> >> The -acpitable parameter accepts a bunch of settings and a datafile, do
> >> I need to set all these settings? I think most of them should sit in the
> >> SLIC-file.
> >>
> >>     
> > -acpitable parameter settings are field from common ACPI table header.
> > If you skip any of them default will be used. Table data that goes after
> > headers should be specified after data=.
> >
> >   
> >> I tried using SLIC-Data-files downloaded from the web, but I'm unsure if
> >> they are formatted correctly.
> >>     
> > It looks like they already contain ACPI header.
> >   
> Okay, I did some new tries. On my own (real-)machine I did
> # acpidump -o acpidata
> # acpixtract -l dump | grep SLIC
> Signature Length  OemId     OemTableId   OemRevision CompilerId
> CompilerRevision
>     SLIC     374  "LENOVO"  "TP-7O   "    00002210    " LTP"     00000000
> # acpixtract -sSLIC acpidata
> # qemu-system-x86_64 -acpitable
> sig=SLIC,rev=1,oem_id=LENOVO,oem_table_id=TP-70\ \ \
> ,oem_rev=00002210,asl_compiler_id=\
> LTP,asl_compiler_rev=00000000,data=SLIC.dat
> 

Are you sure your BIOS is up to date?

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			Gleb.