From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@qumranet.com>, Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:25:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488E2B43.3040303@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728200039.GA19216@shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> If you care to do this sort of work, you can certainly recompile the
>> BIOS. The source is there afterall.
>>
>
> Indeed, same goes for all the other QEMU options. The question is
> whether it's useful enough to have an option, or obscure enough not to.
>
> I'm inclined to think modifying ACPI tables is obscure, except
> perhaps for specific tweaks that some versions of Windows or Linux
> might need to run correctly, or to prevent them from using some
> hardware feature or other.
>
In the future, it may be interesting to allow a precompiled ACPI table
to be loaded and specified as part of a machine configuration file. I
think it makes a lot more sense if you can actually change the machine
layout without recompiling.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> -- Jamie
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 13:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option Chris Lalancette
2008-07-28 14:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gleb Natapov
2008-07-28 14:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-28 14:41 ` Chris Lalancette
2008-07-28 15:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-28 15:09 ` Chris Lalancette
2008-07-28 15:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-28 15:42 ` Chris Lalancette
2008-07-28 16:02 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-07-28 16:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-28 16:27 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-07-28 17:41 ` Blue Swirl
2008-07-28 16:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-28 19:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-28 20:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-28 20:25 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-07-28 20:40 ` Paul Brook
2008-07-28 20:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-29 6:31 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-07-28 15:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-31 19:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Sebastian Herbszt
2008-07-28 15:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2008-07-28 16:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-28 15:35 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-07-29 19:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-29 19:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-07-30 17:32 ` Blue Swirl
2008-08-05 14:33 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-08-06 2:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-06 16:26 ` Blue Swirl
2008-08-06 16:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-06 22:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-06 22:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-07-29 8:15 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-07-29 8:42 ` Chris Lalancette
2008-07-28 15:51 ` Jamie Lokier
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