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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
	Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:26:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110308082657.GB2504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinMGXaAi95PC9V+2x9N6j6JMmxH17OKTEoc88zi@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:18:09AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Regarding the non-volatile variables issue, I have been trying to
> > develop a proposal for addressing this with a change to QEMU's
> > hardware support of bios.bin.  But, I don't have the suggestion (or
> > implementation) ready at this time.
> 
> Sounds like something to keep discussing with the QEMU and SeaBIOS
> communities.  Gleb Natapov and Kevin O'Connor have done a lot of the
> recent BIOS and firmware interface work.  I think persistent CMOS has
> come up several times and might be similar to non-volatile UEFI
> storage.
> 
What kind of information OVMF stores on a persistent storage? CMOS
memory is less them 512 byte IIRC and this may not be enough. What OVMF
uses on real HW for non-volatile storage?

--
			Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-06  4:12 [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas Jordan Justen
2011-03-06 15:29 ` Michal Suchanek
2011-03-06 21:15   ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-07  9:48     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-08  0:54       ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-08  7:18         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-08  8:26           ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2011-03-08 17:13             ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-09 10:16               ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-09 18:34                 ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-08 17:00           ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-09  2:23             ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-03-09  5:34               ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-09 13:43                 ` Natalia Portillo
2011-03-09 18:44                   ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-09 23:20                     ` Natalia Portillo
2011-03-07 10:22   ` Peter Maydell

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