From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:51:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C1641EF.9070001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614140959.GI21797@redhat.com>
On 06/14/2010 05:09 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> Could we just have qemu build the hpet tables and pass them through to
>> seabios? Perhaps using the qemu_cfg_acpi_additional_tables() method.
>>
>>
> Possible, and I considered that. I personally prefer to pass minimum
> information required for seabios to discover underlying HW and leave
> ACPI table creation to seabios. That is how things done for HW that
> seabios can actually detect. If we will go your way pretty soon we will
> move creation of ACPI/SMBIOS/MP tables into qemu and IMHO this will be
> step backworkds.
>
I agree. ACPI is a firmware/OS interface. If we move ACPI table
generation into qemu, it becomes a mixed hardware/firmware/OS interface.
Better keep those interfaces separate: hardware/firmware (fwcfg) and
firmware/OS (acpi).
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-14 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 8:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu Gleb Natapov
2010-06-14 13:54 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-14 14:09 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-14 14:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-06-14 16:03 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-14 14:51 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-06-14 18:25 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-14 18:56 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-14 20:12 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-15 6:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-17 1:22 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-17 7:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-17 1:58 ` Peter Stuge
2010-06-14 19:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-15 4:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-15 6:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-17 1:47 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-17 3:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 6:57 ` Peter Stuge
2010-06-15 0:54 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-15 4:41 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-17 0:55 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-06-17 6:44 ` Gleb Natapov
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