Re: [PATCH] Update qemu-kvm to allow a larger BIOS image.

2009-07-22 Thread Sheng Yang
On Thursday 23 July 2009 03:04:33 Cristi Magherusan wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:57 -0700, Jordan Justen wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sheng Yangsh...@linux.intel.com wrote: Make sense to me. So what's mattered here is not bios, but qemu-kvm and kvm code. The user can

Re: [PATCH] Update qemu-kvm to allow a larger BIOS image.

2009-07-16 Thread Jordan Justen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sheng Yangsh...@linux.intel.com wrote: Make sense to me. So what's mattered here is not bios, but qemu-kvm and kvm code. The user can replace bios binary by UEFI binary easily, but not with kvm related part. I realized you still need separate the qemu-kvm

[PATCH] Update qemu-kvm to allow a larger BIOS image.

2009-07-15 Thread Jordan Justen
Previously the KVM kernel module would allocate the address range of 0xfffbc000-0xfffbcfff for the EPT Indentity Page Tables. A separate patch is moving that to 0xfeffc000-0xfeffcfff. This patch updates qemu-kvm to move the VMX TSS Pages update the KVM BIOS code to update the E820 BIOS call

Re: [PATCH] Update qemu-kvm to allow a larger BIOS image.

2009-07-15 Thread Sheng Yang
On Thursday 16 July 2009 08:12:15 Jordan Justen wrote: Previously the KVM kernel module would allocate the address range of 0xfffbc000-0xfffbcfff for the EPT Indentity Page Tables. A separate patch is moving that to 0xfeffc000-0xfeffcfff. Hi Jordan You need one more patch for upstream kvm, to

Re: [PATCH] Update qemu-kvm to allow a larger BIOS image.

2009-07-15 Thread Jordan Justen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sheng Yang sh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2009 08:12:15 Jordan Justen wrote: Previously the KVM kernel module would allocate the address range of 0xfffbc000-0xfffbcfff for the EPT Indentity Page Tables. A separate patch is moving that to

Re: [PATCH] Update qemu-kvm to allow a larger BIOS image.

2009-07-15 Thread Sheng Yang
On Thursday 16 July 2009 10:58:53 Jordan Justen wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sheng Yang sh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2009 08:12:15 Jordan Justen wrote: Previously the KVM kernel module would allocate the address range of 0xfffbc000-0xfffbcfff for the EPT

Re: [PATCH] Update qemu-kvm to allow a larger BIOS image.

2009-07-15 Thread Jordan Justen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Sheng Yangsh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2009 10:58:53 Jordan Justen wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sheng Yang sh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2009 08:12:15 Jordan Justen wrote: Motivation for making these

Re: [PATCH] Update qemu-kvm to allow a larger BIOS image.

2009-07-15 Thread Sheng Yang
On Thursday 16 July 2009 12:57:02 Jordan Justen wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Sheng Yangsh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2009 10:58:53 Jordan Justen wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sheng Yang sh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2009 08:12:15