From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
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, 01 Oct 2009 10:01:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC461E6.2010806@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091001054903.GS24813%yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
On 01.10.2009 07:49, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:23:59AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
I think coreboot has code to dynamically generate ACPI tables. Patching
precompiled ACPI tables was a major source of pain for coreboot
developers in the past, so we switched to generating the dynamic tables
from scratch during runtime.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 8:01 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 [this message]
2009-10-01 14:46 ` Gleb Natapov
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