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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Li Qiang <liq3ea@gmail.com>,
	mst@redhat.com, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	kevin@koconnor.net
Cc: Qemu Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] Question about ACPI table in qemu
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:24:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28a08ba6-3f7d-5fa1-525b-2790b139c6bb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKXe6SKtGLjDgh0thEemmoodtPZGKOcepbsJ6m76xhznuP3=VA@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/09/2018 18:54, Li Qiang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I noticed that both qemu and seabios create the ACPI table.
> Once I think he bios' ACPI table will overwrite the qemu's if seabios
> compiled with CONFIG_ACPI.

Yes, SeaBIOS's ACPI tables are not used anymore, to remove the need to
update QEMU and SeaBIOS in sync.

> But after I read this -->
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-02/msg04555.html
> 
> There say:
> 
> "just have QEMU pass the tables to SeaBIOS for it to copy
>>>> into memory like it does on CSM, coreboot, and Xen"
> 
> So where does this 'copy' happens? or is there something others I missed?

The copy happens in SeaBIOS's romfile_loader_execute function (called by
qemu_platform_setup).

Thanks,

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-11 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-11 16:54 [Qemu-devel] [Question] Question about ACPI table in qemu Li Qiang
2018-09-11 17:24 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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