From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:03:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100614160352.GC13238@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614144016.GB9550@shareable.org>
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 03:40:16PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > Could we just have qemu build the hpet tables and pass them through to
> > > seabios? Perhaps using the qemu_cfg_acpi_additional_tables() method.
> > >
> > Possible, and I considered that. I personally prefer to pass minimum
> > information required for seabios to discover underlying HW and leave
> > ACPI table creation to seabios. That is how things done for HW that
> > seabios can actually detect. If we will go your way pretty soon we will
> > move creation of ACPI/SMBIOS/MP tables into qemu and IMHO this will be
> > step backworkds.
>
> Why would creation of all the tables in qemu be a bad thing or a step
> in the wrong direction?
>
See Avi's answer. All those tables are firmware/OS interface and as such
may (and some definitely do) contain information known only to BIOS.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-14 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 8:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu Gleb Natapov
2010-06-14 13:54 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-14 14:09 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-14 14:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-06-14 16:03 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2010-06-14 14:51 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-14 18:25 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-14 18:56 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-14 20:12 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-15 6:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-17 1:22 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-17 7:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-17 1:58 ` Peter Stuge
2010-06-14 19:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-15 4:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-15 6:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-17 1:47 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-17 3:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 6:57 ` Peter Stuge
2010-06-15 0:54 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-15 4:41 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 0:55 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-17 6:44 ` Gleb Natapov
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