On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:11:21PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote: > Many programs use SystemBiosDate registry key in order to verify the machine > they are running on (mostly for activation/licensing purposes). > This registry key is read only and is computed as explained before. > When this date changes - this may break the behavior of the machine.
Okay, thanks. > > This date never changes - unless used in virtual environments such as qemu. > > This series help with: > * Ensuring this date never changes when smbios tables change > * Letting the user choose the date which will appear in the > SystemBiosDate registry key > Under QEMU. > > Before this patch: [...] I understand. If we ensured the smbios date is always in the f-segment, would that also solve the problem? (That is, using the 'char win_bios_date[] VARFSEG' method discussed previously.) > The SystemBiosVersion change was made since the debug string "'Intel IGD BDSM > enabled at 0x%08x, size %lldMB, dev 00:02.0’” was seen in the same registry > path, fixing it is not expected to change guest behavior (SystemBiosVersion > is a REG_MULTI_SZ key and may contain multiple version strings and it is not > checked as the SystemBiosDate key which is REG_SZ) - so the changes for it > can be taken from the v2 series. Agreed, but I think using %pP is preferable. I sent a corresponding patch to the mailing list. -Kevin _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org To unsubscribe send an email to seabios-le...@seabios.org
