From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>,
seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:05:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BA5029.3010702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130611073548.GE31474@redhat.com>
Il 11/06/2013 03:35, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> Two points
> 1. You never explained what you mean by un-hardware like.
>
> Currently bios is in a ROM device, and it has a
> template for ACPI tables together with it.
> This simply moves the tables to a separate ROM
> device (FW CFG), and generalizes the template using
> the linker interface.
> One ROM is hardware-like but two is un-hardware like?
>
> ACPI tables are static so it's likely lots of
> hardware has at least some of them pre-formatted in flash,
> then tweak some things like SRAT a bit.
Also having a "bootstrap processor" was certainly not unheard of some
decades ago. Right now we get all sort of SMM hacks instead of adding
more processors, but it's certainly not un-hardware like.
Maybe we should just have a bytecode interpreter and write the ACPI
generator in that language. :)
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-13 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-10 16:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-10 18:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 19:17 ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-10 19:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 19:43 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-10 19:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 20:43 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-10 21:14 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-10 21:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 23:05 ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-06-10 23:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 23:52 ` David Woodhouse
2013-06-11 0:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-11 14:11 ` David Woodhouse
2013-06-11 0:23 ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-06-11 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-11 1:19 ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-06-11 1:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-11 1:49 ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-06-11 6:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11 0:28 ` Jordan Justen
2013-06-11 1:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-11 1:32 ` Jordan Justen
2013-06-11 7:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-13 23:05 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-06-14 0:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-14 1:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Peter Stuge
2013-06-11 14:04 ` David Woodhouse
2013-06-13 23:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-14 0:26 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-16 10:00 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-11 5:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11 5:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-11 6:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11 7:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-11 7:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11 8:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-11 8:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11 8:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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