From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMDpm-0002kg-RS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:55:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMDpj-0007nf-Gl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:55:26 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMDpj-0007nK-BF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:55:23 -0500 References: <1452735417-5461-1-git-send-email-lersek@redhat.com> <20160114100359.GU1766@redhat.com> <5697730D.1090006@zoho.com> <20160114102324.GV1766@redhat.com> <5697CE49.9090005@redhat.com> <20160121113746.GO1766@redhat.com> <56A0C40A.1060305@msgid.tls.msk.ru> From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <56A0C726.6000100@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:55:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56A0C40A.1060305@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] set the OEM fields in the RSDT and the FADT from the SLIC List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Tokarev , "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: Alex , Xiao Guangrong , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini , Shannon Zhao , Igor Mammedov On 01/21/16 12:42, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 21.01.2016 14:37, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> I'm afraid I gave up on this -- did give it my best. It turns out >> that the machine that I thought supported UEFI boot does not. I'll >> keep an eye out for such a machine and test this in future. > > BTW, why do you guys refer to UEFI boot all the time? The whole thing > is equally useful on traditional BIOS-booting machines too. Windows7 > uses the same mechanism (looking at RSDT) for offline activation no > matter if it is EFI system or not. > > When I did first version of my patch (based on someone else's version, > but details escapes my memory already), there was no UEFI support for > qemu whatsoever, and it allowed me to use my OEM version of Windows7 > inside a qemu virtual machine without second activation. I've been referring to UEFI because my interest was renewed in this topic by the following OVMF problem report: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/issues/5 Of course, the issue is not specific to OVMF (that's why I posted the patches for QEMU), but I guess it stuck in my mind. Sorry. Laszlo