Re: [SeaBIOS] Moving BIOS tables from SeaBIOS to QEMU

2013-02-28 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 02/28/13 06:23, Peter Stuge wrote: Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Option one is to let qemu provide them, then both ovmf and seabios can grab them via fw_cfg. Option two is to use coreboot underneath I don't think one should exclude the other, I think it would make great sense to combine them.

Re: [SeaBIOS] Moving BIOS tables from SeaBIOS to QEMU

2013-02-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 15:46 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: 2. Having (many!) hypervisor-specific special cases in SeaBIOS seems wildly schizophrenic without bringing any significant benefits, compared to factoring all of that out into a codebase which *already does many of the needed

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 00/30] ACPI memory hotplug

2013-02-28 Thread Vasilis Liaskovitis
Hi, sorry for the delay. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 07:39:40PM -0300, Erlon Cruz wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Vasilis Liaskovitis vasilis.liaskovi...@profitbricks.com wrote: This is v4 of the ACPI memory hotplug functionality. Only x86_64 target is supported (both i440fx and

Re: [SeaBIOS] Moving BIOS tables from SeaBIOS to QEMU

2013-02-28 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 02/28/13 10:37, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 15:46 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: 2. Having (many!) hypervisor-specific special cases in SeaBIOS seems wildly schizophrenic without bringing any significant benefits, compared to factoring all of that out into a codebase which

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Distinguish between reset types

2013-02-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/20/2013 07:37 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 16:34 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 20/02/2013 16:18, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto: I'm beginning to wish I'd just ignored the fact that we need a properly working soft reset to get back from 286 protected mode to real mode, and

Re: [SeaBIOS] RFC: Primary VGA

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 08:50 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:16:23PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: When we start adding root ports and bridges to systems we need some concept of a primary VGA device.The differentiation of the primary device is that it's the

[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] pci vga: Support VGA behind bridges

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Williamson
We currently expect to find VGA devices on the root bus but we will also support them below bridges iff the VGA routing across the bridges is pre-configured. This patch maintains that behavior, but also enables SeaBIOS to enable VGA routing to the first VGA class device it finds when there is no

Re: [SeaBIOS] RFC: Primary VGA

2013-02-28 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:26:54 -0700 Alex Williamson alex.william...@redhat.com wrote: Looking at how this would happen on bare metal, In coreboot(which can use SeaBIOS as a payload) it currently works like that (in src/device/device.c ): /* If we prefer plugin VGA over chipset VGA, the chipset

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] pci vga: Support VGA behind bridges

2013-02-28 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:52:49AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: We currently expect to find VGA devices on the root bus but we will also support them below bridges iff the VGA routing across the bridges is pre-configured. This patch maintains that behavior, but also enables SeaBIOS to enable