Re: HPET configuration in Seabios

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2011-08-29 13:05, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-08-29 13:00, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/29/2011 01:25 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Can't seabios just poke at the hpet itself and see if it exists or not?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Would be hard for the BIOS to guess the locations of the blocks unless
>>> we define the addresses used by QEMU as something like base + hpet_no *
>>> block_size in all cases.
>>>
>>
>> Currently we have a fixed address.  We could do:
>>
>>   if available in fw_cfg:
>>       use that (may indicate no hpet)
>>   elif fixed address works:
>>       use that
>>   else
>>       no hpet
> 
> Currently, we also only have a single HPET block, but that's just
> because of some QEMU limitations that will vanish sooner or later. Then
> nothing will prevent multiple "-device hpet,base=XXX".

That said, some HPET probing (without any fw_cfg) may be a short-term
workaround to fix Seabios until we defined The solution for
communicating HPET block configurations.

Jan

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