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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] pc: Postpone SMBIOS table installation
 to post machine init
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, minyard@acm.org, Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 03:16:46PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14/03/2016 14:30, Corey Minyard wrote:
> > On 03/13/2016 09:03 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:59:13PM -0600, minyard@acm.org wrote:
> >>> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
> >>>
> >>> This is the same place that the ACPI SSDT table gets added, so that
> >>> devices can add themselves to the SMBIOS table.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
> >> This changes the order of fw cfg files, which
> >> is guest visible.
> >> Need to make it depend on either machine type 
> 
> Didn't Gerd have a patch to sort fw_cfg files?
> 
> ... yes, here it is:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg05238.html
> 
> Paolo

Yes but the messy part is the compatibility.
Specifically we need to find out the current list
of fw cfg files, and their order, and use that
existing order with old machine types.

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