Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present

[Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>]

* Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com> [2007-12-11 15:29]:
> Hi Ryan & others,
> 
> now I have been holding a SMBIOS patch on my hard disk for way to long it
> seems. I used a different approach from yours, so I decided to publish it
> for review or further ideas. What I did was to modify the bochs bios to
> produce the SMBIOS tables and I get the UUID using VMware backdoor port from
> the virtual machine.
> 
> Attached are just the changed files, creating a patch will take a while
> because it's against VERY OLD version of the sources.

Filip,

Thanks for posting this.  I agree with Fabrice that doing the SMBIOS
tables in rombios is a better approach.  The rombio32.c file you
included didn't look that old to me; it has a CVS release tag of:
'rombios32.c,v 1.11 2007/08/03 13:56:13'  

AFAICT, it looks like a straight-forward SMBIOS implementation.  The
only thing worth adding to yours is the BIOS release date string in the
type 0 table.  Setting this date to something newer than typical
CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR value (2000 in Gutsy's kernels) lets the
kernel enable ACPI features (like power-off).

Any idea on when you might have a patch that I can test?

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