Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest

2013-06-03 Thread Jordan Justen
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com writes: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:38:51PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: I don't think it's a good idea to move BIOS functionality in QEMU. Just to clarify: generating ACPI tables

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest

2013-06-03 Thread Anthony Liguori
Jordan Justen jljus...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com writes: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:38:51PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: I don't think it's a good idea to move BIOS functionality in

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest

2013-05-14 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Several future developments that this will enable: - make it easier to use alternative firmware: any firmware can just load the ACPI tables from QEMU. case in point OVMF. UEFI obviously can create ACPI tables already so I don't think this is a valid advantage. Yea, but it

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest

2013-05-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Gerd Hoffmann kra...@redhat.com writes: Hi, and is also a good reason why exposing this information via a common interface (fw_cfg) would be a good idea. Huh? As far I know we generate device trees in qemu instead of expecting pseries firmware compile them from fw_cfg information.

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest

2013-05-14 Thread Peter Maydell
On 14 May 2013 15:29, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 10:38 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: It depends. For ARM we insist that the user provides the device tree that corresponds to the kernel they're going to run, and then we just tweak it a bit. Um... device

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest

2013-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 10:38 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: It depends. For ARM we insist that the user provides the device tree that corresponds to the kernel they're going to run, and then we just tweak it a bit. Um... device trees describe hardware, and should not be at all kernel-specific.