Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] set the OEM fields in the RSDT and the FADT from the SLIC

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 02/03/16 20:02, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 03.02.2016 21:51, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> Ping #2.
> 
> I think I asked this before, but somehow I don't see anyone
> answered.  Is this thing worth to have now, when windows7 is
> 2 releases away, everyone is moving to windows8 or 10 rapidly,
> and these OSes don't benefit from this patch due to different
> activation scheme and different licensing terms?
> 
> Is it useful for anything but win7 (or 2008) ?
> 
> It was definitely useful when I dealt with this issue back
> when win7 come out, at that time it received no interest.
> Now, I think, it is of very limited/questionable use...

I can forward the arguments of the people who requested this functionality:

(1) Aleksei requested this fairly recently:
    <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/issues/5>.

(2) I've seen arguments about the long-term relevance of
    Windows 2008 R2:
    <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248758#c15>

    and of Windows 7:
    <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248758#c16>

My own arguments:

- SLIC is actually governed by a public Microsoft spec, so it doesn't
  hurt to conform to it.

- We went to *much* greater lengths for enabling UEFI Windows 7 / UEFI
  Windows Server 2008 R2 on top of OVMF *without* a CSM. UEFI is not
  relevant at all in this thread, I'm just saying that in comparison to
  what we had taken on for the Win7 family's sake, this effort is almost
  negligible.

Thanks
Laszlo