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envelope-from=mihai.carabas@oracle.com; helo=mx0a-00069f02.pphosted.com X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org La 22.11.2022 15:40, Peter Maydell a scris: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 11:43, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 11:24, Mihai Carabas wrote: >>> La 21.11.2022 13:02, Peter Maydell a scris: >>>> On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 at 17:53, Mihai Carabas wrote: >>>>> La 18.11.2022 21:11, Peter Maydell a scris: >>>>>> On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 at 17:37, Mihai Carabas wrote: >>>>>>> Use the base_memmap to build the SMBIOS 19 table which provides the address >>>>>>> mapping for a Physical Memory Array (from spec [1] chapter 7.20). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This was present on i386 from commit c97294ec1b9e36887e119589d456557d72ab37b5 >>>>>>> ("SMBIOS: Build aggregate smbios tables and entry point"). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0134_3.5.0.pdf__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!KF2xmQw9nxPvqvNCgDleyVHv4MoZseoZFHmR1veww7O2BmRxSH1spOCNWX-c-FvzcaR_o8PunXSWWH2ECvFqlR4E7vw$ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mihai Carabas >>>>>> Is this a bug fix, or a new feature? What are the consequences >>>>>> of it being missing? Is this important enough to go into the 7.2 >>>>>> release? (My default position would be "no", given this has been >>>>>> like this on the virt board for a very long time.) >>>>> This is required by ARM SystemReady Virtual Environment [1]. As >>>>> described in the Arm SystemReady Requirements Specification v2.0 >>>>> [2] page 9, 2.5.1 SystemReady Virtual Environment (VE) v1.0 >>>>> requirements,: "FirmwareTestSuite (FWTS) must still be used" -> fwts >>>>> checks for the presence of SMBIOS type 19 table and fails the test in >>>>> this case. >>>> OK, so it's a spec requirement. Are there any actual realworld >>>> guests that don't work because we get this wrong ? >>> We do not have a clear example. The thing we hit was the ARM SystemReady >>> certification based on fwts. >> Thanks for clarifying; in that case given we're quite far along >> in the 7.2 release cycle I think we shouldn't try to get this >> patch in to that release but instead put it in for 8.0. > I checked how x86 sets up this smbios table, and it doesn't > put any pluggable DIMMs in it, only the initial fixed RAM, > so I'm happy that virt doesn't need to do anything special > there. I've applied this patch to a target-arm-for-8.0 branch > that will eventually turn into target-arm when 7.2 is released > in a few weeks time. > > I've tweaked the commit message to make it clear that this > is fixing a spec issue which doesn't to our knowledge > cause any guest OS problems. Thank you! Also talked with my collegues and confirmed that SMBIOS is a static area that is not updated during OS running. > > thanks > -- PMM