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Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@qumranet.com>, Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>

Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> If you care to do this sort of work, you can certainly recompile the 
>> BIOS.  The source is there afterall.
>>     
>
> Indeed, same goes for all the other QEMU options.  The question is
> whether it's useful enough to have an option, or obscure enough not to.
>
> I'm inclined to think modifying ACPI tables is obscure, except
> perhaps for specific tweaks that some versions of Windows or Linux
> might need to run correctly, or to prevent them from using some
> hardware feature or other.
>   

In the future, it may be interesting to allow a precompiled ACPI table 
to be loaded and specified as part of a machine configuration file.  I 
think it makes a lot more sense if you can actually change the machine 
layout without recompiling.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- Jamie
>
>
>