On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 6:53 PM Miguel Luis <miguel.l...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Update the Fixed ACPI Description Table (FADT) to revision 6.0 of the ACPI
> specification adding the field "Hypervisor Vendor Identity" that was missing.
>
> This field's description states the following: "64-bit identifier of
> hypervisor
> vendor. All bytes in this field are considered part of the vendor identity.
> These identifiers are defined independently by the vendors themselves,
> usually following the name of the hypervisor product. Version information
> should NOT be included in this field - this shall simply denote the vendor's
> name or identifier. Version information can be communicated through a
> supplemental vendor-specific hypervisor API. Firmware implementers would
> place zero bytes into this field, denoting that no hypervisor is present in
> the actual firmware."
>
> Hereupon, what should a valid identifier of an Hypervisor Vendor ID be and
> where should QEMU provide that information?
>
> On the v1 [1] of this RFC there's the suggestion of having this information
> in sync by the current acceleration name. This also seems to imply that QEMU,
> which generates the FADT table, and the FADT consumer need to be in sync with
> the values of this field.
>
> This version follows Ani Sinha's suggestion [2] of using "QEMU" for the
> hypervisor vendor ID.
>
> [1]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-10/msg00911.html
> [2]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-10/msg00989.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Luis <miguel.l...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ani Sinha <a...@anisinha.ca>
> ---
> hw/acpi/aml-build.c | 13 ++++++++++---
> hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c | 10 +++++-----
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> index e6bfac95c7..42feb4d4d7 100644
> --- a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> +++ b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> @@ -2070,7 +2070,7 @@ void build_pptt(GArray *table_data, BIOSLinker *linker,
> MachineState *ms,
> acpi_table_end(linker, &table);
> }
>
> -/* build rev1/rev3/rev5.1 FADT */
> +/* build rev1/rev3/rev5.1/rev6.0 FADT */
> void build_fadt(GArray *tbl, BIOSLinker *linker, const AcpiFadtData *f,
> const char *oem_id, const char *oem_table_id)
> {
> @@ -2193,8 +2193,15 @@ void build_fadt(GArray *tbl, BIOSLinker *linker, const
> AcpiFadtData *f,
> /* SLEEP_STATUS_REG */
> build_append_gas_from_struct(tbl, &f->sleep_sts);
>
> - /* TODO: extra fields need to be added to support revisions above rev5 */
> - assert(f->rev == 5);
> + if (f->rev == 5) {
> + goto done;
> + }
> +
> + /* Hypervisor Vendor Identity */
> + build_append_padded_str(tbl, "QEMU", 8, '\0');
> +
> + /* TODO: extra fields need to be added to support revisions above rev6 */
> + assert(f->rev == 6);
>
> done:
> acpi_table_end(linker, &table);
> diff --git a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> index 9b3aee01bf..72bb6f61a5 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> @@ -809,13 +809,13 @@ build_madt(GArray *table_data, BIOSLinker *linker,
> VirtMachineState *vms)
> }
>
> /* FADT */
> -static void build_fadt_rev5(GArray *table_data, BIOSLinker *linker,
> +static void build_fadt_rev6(GArray *table_data, BIOSLinker *linker,
> VirtMachineState *vms, unsigned dsdt_tbl_offset)
> {
> - /* ACPI v5.1 */
> + /* ACPI v6.0 */
> AcpiFadtData fadt = {
> - .rev = 5,
> - .minor_ver = 1,
> + .rev = 6,
> + .minor_ver = 0,
> .flags = 1 << ACPI_FADT_F_HW_REDUCED_ACPI,
> .xdsdt_tbl_offset = &dsdt_tbl_offset,
> };
> @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ void virt_acpi_build(VirtMachineState *vms,
> AcpiBuildTables *tables)
>
> /* FADT MADT PPTT GTDT MCFG SPCR DBG2 pointed to by RSDT */
> acpi_add_table(table_offsets, tables_blob);
> - build_fadt_rev5(tables_blob, tables->linker, vms, dsdt);
> + build_fadt_rev6(tables_blob, tables->linker, vms, dsdt);
>
> acpi_add_table(table_offsets, tables_blob);
> build_madt(tables_blob, tables->linker, vms);
> --
> 2.37.3
>
