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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:38:36 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: drop external DSDT loading
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Michael Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:

> On 08/08/13 18:38, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> This breaks migration and is unneeded with modern SeaBIOS.
>
> No.  Dropping for piix is fine.  It will break q35 though.

Can you elaborate?  When Michael and I discussed this I was under the
impression that latest SeaBIOS had full support for q35.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Given that q35 can't be migrated anyway due to ahci being tagged as
> unmigratable keeping it for q35 (until the new acpi table loading is
> sorted) shouldn't hurt though.
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd