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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@qumranet.com>, Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> Why would changing machine layout need to be able to override the ACPI table? 
> If the ACPI table doesn't match the emulated hardware that's a bug, and IMHO 
> having users supply their own tables is not a good way to fix that bug.
>   

Not everything in ACPI maps directly to emulated hardware.  The SMBIOS 
tables are a good example of this.

If I understand correctly, it's not uncommon for hardware manufactures 
to have a mostly static table, with sub-tables that are dynamically 
generated.  So we may create a mostly "static" table based on the chosen 
emulated hardware and then allow a user to fill in the sub tables.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul
>