Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Make SMBIOS table pass MS SVVP test

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:57:14AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 22.11.2009 18:39, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> > Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:51:41PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> >>> Is the requirement for "Targeted Content Delivery" specified
> >>> somewhere with something more
> >>> clear than "SMBIOS data is useful in identifying the computer for
> >>> targeted delivery of
> >>> model-specific software and firmware content" (e.g. changing BIOS
> >>> version, release date, etc.)?
> >>>
> >>> >@@ -130,8 +131,8 @@ smbios_init_type_1(void *start)
> >>> >    p->header.length = sizeof(struct smbios_type_1);
> >>> >    p->header.handle = 0x100;
> >>> >
> >>> >-    load_str_field_or_skip(1, manufacturer_str);
> >>> >-    load_str_field_or_skip(1, product_name_str);
> >>> >+    load_str_field_with_default(1, manufacturer_str, "QEMU");
> >>> >+    load_str_field_with_default(1, product_name_str, "QEMU");
> >>>
> >>> Use "QEMU Virtual Platform" product name derivated from "VMware
> >>> Virtual Platform" ?
> >>> Use "QEMU Project" or "QEMU Community" throughout for manufacturer
> >>> name?
> >> I'll change this to use defines as per Kevin's request, so to keep
> >> number of defines to minimum
> >> lets make it "QEMU Project" everywhere.
> >
> > Will you introduce something like CONFIG_SYSVENDOR? Would be useful in
> > case some other project
> > (Bochs, Xen?) starts to use seabios.
> 
> coreboot already uses SeaBIOS on various x86 hardware platforms.
> 
But does coreboot use SMBIOS tables generated by SeaBIOS?

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			Gleb.