From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Ian.Campbell@citrix.com" <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
"linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org>,
Alexander Spyridakis <a.spyridakis@virtualopensystems.com>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>,
Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>,
"stefano.stabellini@citrix.com" <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>,
"grant.likely@linaro.org" <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
"tech@virtualopensystems.com" <tech@virtualopensystems.com>,
Parth Dixit <parth.dixit@linaro.org>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Linaro-acpi] [RFC PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/virt: Dynamic ACPI v5.1 table generation
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:12:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54634E92.8010805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141112120419.GE28015@leverpostej>
On 12/11/2014 13:04, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> > SeaBIOS fishes out information from fw_cfg, and puts it in low memory.
>> > On ARM you could use DT binary blobs instead of fw_cfg, as proposed
>> > already (I don't remember if it was in this thread or IRC). Then if you
>> > want to go !UEFI you can extract the tables from those binary blobs.
> This sounds broken. I am very much not a fan of shoving binary blobs
> into DT to workaround a shoddy boot interface.
We tried spec-ing everything and building the tables in the firmware on
x86. You really do not want to do that; it's painful to have to update
firmware in lockstep with QEMU, and when you add the next feature it
always seems like you got the bindings wrong.
And we only had one client (SeaBIOS) while you will have at least two
(TianoCore and Linux, presumably? or is Huawei targeting OSv only?).
What we do now is we have two blobs, one with the ACPI tables and one
that tells the firmware how to relocate pointers from one table to
another. It's been working very well for both SeaBIOS and OVMF.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-30 17:43 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/virt: Dynamic ACPI v5.1 table generation Alexander Spyridakis
2014-10-30 17:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/7] hw/i386: Move ACPI header definitions in an arch-independent location Alexander Spyridakis
2014-10-30 17:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/7] hw/arm/virt-acpi: Basic skeleton for dynamic generation of ACPI tables Alexander Spyridakis
2014-10-30 17:46 ` Peter Maydell
2014-10-30 17:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/virt: Dynamic ACPI v5.1 table generation Peter Maydell
2014-10-30 18:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [Linaro-acpi] " Mark Rutland
2014-11-05 9:58 ` Claudio Fontana
2014-11-06 12:44 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-06 12:57 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-11-06 13:33 ` Alexander Spyridakis
2014-11-06 13:52 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-11 15:29 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-11 16:31 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-11 16:48 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-11 21:33 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 10:38 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 10:44 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 10:55 ` Julien Grall
2014-11-12 11:07 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 11:38 ` Graeme Gregory
2014-11-12 11:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 12:04 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 12:12 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-11-12 13:27 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-12 13:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 15:01 ` Claudio Fontana
2014-11-12 15:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 15:39 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-12 15:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 15:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 16:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 16:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 16:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 17:33 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-13 8:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-13 8:14 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-13 8:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-13 18:16 ` Al Stone
2014-11-13 19:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-14 7:54 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-12 9:08 ` Claudio Fontana
2014-11-12 10:56 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 11:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 11:34 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 12:18 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 12:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 12:40 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 13:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 13:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 13:41 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 13:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 14:10 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 14:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 13:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 13:35 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 11:55 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 18:10 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-13 9:57 ` Claudio Fontana
2014-11-17 17:52 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-06 6:53 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-11-06 13:30 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-06 13:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-06 15:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-06 16:18 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-11-06 16:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-07 8:31 ` Hanjun Guo
2015-03-09 12:12 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-03-09 12:28 ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-09 12:47 ` Shannon Zhao
2015-03-09 14:50 ` Leif Lindholm
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