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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
	Joe Richey <joerichey94@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Joe Richey <joerichey@google.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] optionrom/pvh: scan entire RSDP Area
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 13:20:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bbbee5d6-ede2-a0b8-16f3-9496a783a62f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200304085541.cyirmrx5dozhf63a@steredhat>

On 04/03/20 09:55, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> CCing Paolo
> 
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 02:52:47AM -0800, Joe Richey wrote:
>> From: Joe Richey <joerichey@google.com>
>>
>> Right now the PVH option rom scans for the RSDP from 0xE0000 to
>> 0xE1FFF. This is probobly a typo, it should scan from 0xE0000 to
>> 0xFFFFF.
>>
>> This is actually an issue on some QEMU versions/machines. For example,
>> when I run QEMU the RSDP is placed at 0xf5ad0 which will not be picked
>> up by the current implementation.
>>
>> This bug still allows a Linux guest to boot (in most configurations) as
>> the kernel will just scan for the RSDP if one isn't provided.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joe Richey <joerichey@google.com>
>> ---
>>  pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c b/pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c
>> index a015e1bf22..28e79d7fc4 100644
>> --- a/pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c
>> +++ b/pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c
>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ asm (".code32"); /* this code will be executed in protected mode */
>>  
>>  #define RSDP_SIGNATURE          0x2052545020445352LL /* "RSD PTR " */
>>  #define RSDP_AREA_ADDR          0x000E0000
>> -#define RSDP_AREA_SIZE          2048
>> +#define RSDP_AREA_SIZE          0x00020000
>>  #define EBDA_BASE_ADDR          0x0000040E
>>  #define EBDA_SIZE               1024
>>  
> 
> The patch LGTM!
> 
> When I wrote this code I followed [1], where it is written that it can
> be found in the "memory region from 0x000E0000 to 0x000FFFFF", so it
> should be a typo.
> 
> Thanks for fixing it!
> 
> 
> Fixes: 2785dc7b17 ("optionrom: add new PVH option rom")
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osdev.org/RSDP#Detecting_the_RSDP
> 

Queued, thanks for both the fix and the Cc.

Paolo



      reply	other threads:[~2020-03-04 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-03 10:52 [PATCH] optionrom/pvh: scan entire RSDP Area Joe Richey
2020-03-04  8:55 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-03-04 12:20   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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