+Michael
Am 22. April 2024 20:06:21 UTC schrieb Bernhard Beschow <shen...@gmail.com>:
>This series changes the "isa-bios" MemoryRegion to be an alias rather than a
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>copy in the pflash case. This fixes issuing pflash commands in the isa-bios
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>region which matches real hardware and which some real-world legacy bioses I'm
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>running rely on. Furthermore, aliasing in the isa-bios area is already the
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>current behavior in the bios (a.k.a. ROM) case, so this series consolidates
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>behavior.
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>The consolidateion results in duplicate code which is resolved in the second
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>half (patches 3 and 4) in this series.
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>Question: AFAIU, patch 2 changes the behavior for SEV-enabled guests since the
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>isa-bios area is now encrypted. Does this need compat machinery or is it a
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>bugfix?
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>Testing done:
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>* `make check` with qemu-system-x86_64 (QEMU 8.2.2) installed. All tests
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> including migration tests pass.
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>* `make check-avocado`
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>Best regards,
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>Bernhard
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>Bernhard Beschow (4):
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> hw/i386/pc_sysfw: Remove unused parameter from pc_isa_bios_init()
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> hw/i386/pc_sysfw: Alias rather than copy isa-bios region
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> hw/i386/x86: Eliminate two if statements in x86_bios_rom_init()
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> hw/i386: Consolidate isa-bios creation
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> include/hw/i386/x86.h | 2 ++
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> hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c | 38 ++++----------------------------------
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> hw/i386/x86.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
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> 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
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>2.44.0
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