Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Beginning implementing the AMD IOMMU emulation

Avi Kivity
2010-03-31T05:39:02Z

On 03/30/2010 10:40 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
>> In short, this demonstrates a mechanism of inserting ACPI tables without
>> modifying SeaBIOS or other BIOS implementations. I also have a SeaBIOS
>> equivalent, but I think this approach is better, at least at the moment.
>>
> I like the approach implemented in this patchset because of its
> simplicity. The right place for building acpi tables is the bios,
> though. I am fine with both ways. Anthony, Avi, what do you
> think about it?
>

I agree. Let qemu emulate the hardware, build the tables in the BIOS.

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