From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support q35 chipset
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:46:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091001144604.GU9832@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091001054903.GS24813%yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:49:03PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > >There would be a discussion to change bioses.
> > >This patches modifies ACPI DSDT directly which
> > >is linked into bios binary image.
> > >This would not be acceptable and it would be a bad
> > >idea to have two bios binary image for piix and q35.
> > >So instead, I'm thinking of dynamic loading ACPI table.
> > >I'd like to hear opinions. What do you think?
> > >
> >
> > Could we dynamically generate the necessary tables? Using iasl is a bit
> > problematic as we introduce more knobs via qdev. I expect that we're
> > going to move to an almost entirely generated set of tables.
>
> So at least an interface to pass acpi tables to guest bios from qemu
> is necessary. FW_CFG interface seems reasonable.
> Generating tables dynamically sounds attractive. However it seems much
> longer term goal like machine config file.
We already have interface to pass acpi tables to bios, but tables like
DSDT should be part of the bios, not qemu.
--
Gleb.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 10:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support q35 chipset Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/14] pcbios: add generated files to dot gitignore Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/14] pcbios: fix makesym.perl Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/14] pcbios: remove iasl output file when error Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/14] pcbios: make set_e820_range() full 64bit aware Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/14] pcbios: rombios32: make pci memory space assignment " Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/14] pcbios: rombios32: make pci space assigner preferchable memory aware Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/14] pcbios: enable debug output for debug Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/14] pcibos: initialize q35 chipset Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/14] pcbios: comment out PCI_FIXED_HOST_BRIDGE for gmch host pci bridge to undef Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/14] pcibos: add mcfg entry to ACPI table for q35 pcie Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/14] pcbios: reserve mcfg area by e820 for linux to use mcfg Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/14] pcbios: make pci bar initialization to be aware of preferchable memory Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/14] pcbios: change acpi dsdt for q35 chipset Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/14] pcibos/acpi dsdt: APIC mode support " Isaku Yamahata
2009-09-30 13:23 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support " Anthony Liguori
2009-09-30 16:14 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-01 5:49 ` Isaku Yamahata
2009-10-01 8:01 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-10-01 14:46 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20091001144604.GU9832@redhat.com \
--to=gleb@redhat.com \
--cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
--cc=yamahata@valinux.co.jp \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.