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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support q35 chipset
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To: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
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Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> This patches to pcbios is for q35 chipset.
> This is The change set of da5ff65dc9473e3f069736d38b9a189ea14a67eb
> in git://git.qemu.org/pcbios.git
>   

Patches against SeaBIOS are also required as we're planning to switch to 
SeaBIOS.

In fact, you don't need to bother with pcbios if you'd rather focus on 
SeaBIOS.

> There would be a discussion to change bioses.
> This patches modifies ACPI DSDT directly which
> is linked into bios binary image.
> This would not be acceptable and it would be a bad
> idea to have two bios binary image for piix and q35.
> So instead, I'm thinking of dynamic loading ACPI table.
> I'd like to hear opinions. What do you think?
>   

Could we dynamically generate the necessary tables?  Using iasl is a bit 
problematic as we introduce more knobs via qdev.  I expect that we're 
going to move to an almost entirely generated set of tables.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori