Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

  Hi,

> I guess -bios would load coreboot. Coreboot would siphon the data
> necessary for ACPI table building through the current (same) fw_cfg
> bottleneck, build the tables,

Yes.

> load the boot firmware (SeaBIOS or OVMF or
> something else -- not sure how to configure that),

The coreboot rom has named sections (this is called cbfs which stands
for coreboot filesystem IIRC):

rincewind kraxel ~# cbfstool /usr/share/coreboot.git/bios.bin print
bios.bin: 256 kB, bootblocksize 848, romsize 262144, offset 0x0
alignment: 64 bytes

Name                           Offset     Type         Size
cmos_layout.bin                0x0        cmos_layout  1160
fallback/romstage              0x4c0      stage        14419
fallback/coreboot_ram          0x3d80     stage        37333
config                         0xcfc0     raw          2493
fallback/payload               0xd9c0     payload      56969
vgabios/sgabios                0x1b8c0    raw          4096
(empty)                        0x1c900    null         144216

where "fallback/payload" is seabios.

> and pass down the
> tables to the firmware (through a now unspecified interface -- perhaps
> the tables could even be installed at this point).

As far I know coreboot can add more stuff such as acpi tables to cbfs at
runtime and seabios able to access cbfs too and pull informations from
coreboot that way.

HTH,
  Gerd