From: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
To: Julian Pidancet <julian.pidancet@gmail.com>
Cc: seabios@seabios.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
ian.campbell@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SeaBIOS/Xen: Compute the low RAM memory size in the BDA according to the e820
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:37:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC0C529.8010701@assembler.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111114033618.GA30104@morn.localdomain>
> Unfortunately, there aren't very many places to put a hardcoded
> address. The safest thing is probably to dynamically generate an SSDT
> with a pointer - then the DSDT can use the pointer instead of a
> hardcoded address. This is more work, however.
You can even create an "OEM" ACPI table, with std ACPI header, but with custom
data inside. OS will ignore it and as bonus you will have it with checksum.
Thanks
Rudolf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-14 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-14 1:50 [PATCH] SeaBIOS/Xen: Compute the low RAM memory size in the BDA according to the e820 Julian Pidancet
2011-11-14 1:11 ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-11-14 2:03 ` Julian Pidancet
2011-11-14 2:09 ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-11-14 2:48 ` Julian Pidancet
2011-11-14 3:36 ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-11-14 7:37 ` Rudolf Marek [this message]
2011-11-14 8:53 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-14 13:23 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-14 13:27 ` Julian Pidancet
2011-11-14 13:43 ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-11-14 19:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Julian Pidancet
2011-11-14 20:16 ` Keir Fraser
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