From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: seabios@seabios.org, lersek@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:53:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519241D9.3000608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sj1p1yma.fsf@codemonkey.ws>
Hi,
>>> and is also a good
>>> reason why exposing this information via a common interface (fw_cfg)
>>> would be a good idea.
>>
>> Huh? As far I know we generate device trees in qemu instead of
>> expecting pseries firmware compile them from fw_cfg information.
>
> It depends on what firmware you are using.
Of course. On archs which don't use device trees in the first place it
doesn't make sense.
> We don't really generate device trees in general in QEMU.
pseries does (thats why the hard libfdt dependency if you want pseries
support). arm wants move into that direction too.
> As Peter mentioned, in an ideal world we'd generate them from the QOM
> graph.
Sure.
> That should happen in the firmware and it could be enabled by
> adding just a couple fw_cfg commands to navigate the QOM graph (analogs
> to qom-list and qom-get in QMP).
I don't think Peter intended to imply *that* ...
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-14 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-13 20:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 03/13] refer to FWCfgState explicitly Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 02/13] hw/i386/pc.c: move IO_APIC_DEFAULT_ADDRESS to include/hw/i386/apic.h Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:08 ` Eric Blake
2013-05-13 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 01/13] apic: rename apic specific bitopts Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:22 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-13 20:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 04/13] fw_cfg: move typedef to qemu/typedefs.h Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 05/13] i386: add ACPI table files from seabios Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 06/13] acpi: add rules to compile ASL source Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 07/13] acpi: pre-compiled ASL files Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/13] range: add Range structure Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:20 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-14 7:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 09/13] i386: add bios linker/loader Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 13/13] pc: reuse guest info for legacy fw cfg Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 10/13] i386: generate pc guest info Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:23 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-14 8:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-14 9:32 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-13 20:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 12/13] i386: ACPI table generation code from seabios Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:27 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-13 20:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 11/13] pc: pass PCI hole ranges to Guests Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-13 20:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest Anthony Liguori
2013-05-14 1:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2013-05-14 9:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2013-05-14 9:38 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-14 14:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " David Woodhouse
2013-05-14 15:13 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-14 13:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2013-05-14 13:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2013-05-14 14:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-14 11:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-14 13:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-14 14:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-15 6:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-03 22:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jordan Justen
2013-06-03 23:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-04 4:14 ` Jordan Justen
2013-05-16 11:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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