Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc/acpi: Fix booting of macOS with Clover EFI bootloader

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Fri,  4 Aug 2017 12:15:40 +0530
Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@gmail.com> wrote:

> This was tested with macOS 10.12.5 and Clover r4114.
> 
> Without this patch, the macOS boot process gets stuck at the Apple logo
> without showing any progress bar.
> 
> I have documented the process of running macOS on QEMU/KVM at,
> 
> https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/
> 
> Instead of using this patch, adding an additional command-line knob
> which exposes this setting (force_rev1_fadt) to the user might be a more
> general solution.
it's been reported that OVMF had issues that were fixed,
you probably want to read this thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg468456.html

CCing interested parties

> ---
>  hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
> index b9c245c..0f8df19 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
> @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static void acpi_get_pm_info(AcpiPmInfo *pm)
>              object_property_get_uint(obj, ACPI_PCIHP_IO_LEN_PROP, NULL);
>      }
>      if (lpc) {
> +        pm->force_rev1_fadt = true;
>          obj = lpc;
>          pm->cpu_hp_io_base = ICH9_CPU_HOTPLUG_IO_BASE;
>      }