Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-10 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 08:04:12PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:35:15PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote: From: Jason Baron jba...@redhat.com This builds seabios such that the dsdt tables are no longer built into the seabios binary. They must be passed to the seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-10 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Instead of moving just the dsdt to qemu, though, can we move all acpi tables into qemu? Moving just the dsdt can lead to conflicts with the generated ssdt code and potentially some of the other acpi tables. For now the plan is to keep the dsdt in the seabios git repo, but install them

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-10 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 10/10/2012 09:14, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto: Hi, Instead of moving just the dsdt to qemu, though, can we move all acpi tables into qemu? Moving just the dsdt can lead to conflicts with the generated ssdt code and potentially some of the other acpi tables. For now the plan is to keep

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-10 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 11:02:52AM -0400, Jason Baron wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:13:59AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 10/09/12 05:35, Jason Baron wrote: From: Jason Baron jba...@redhat.com This builds seabios such that the dsdt tables are no longer built into the seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-10 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 10/10/2012 16:26, Jason Baron ha scritto: Another point of discussion is the ordering of the commits to seabios vs. qemu. We could commit the above patch now (without the q35 aml, and with the acpi-dsdt.aml file). For q35, we could wait for the SeaBIOS bits to go in first, and then add

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-10 Thread Jason Baron
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:14:46AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Ok, I like this idea. My only hesitation would be that the dsdt table might in the future include a dependency on being built with seabios, such as the 'ACPI_EXTRACT_*' stuff. At the moment it can be cleanly separated

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 10/09/12 05:35, Jason Baron wrote: From: Jason Baron jba...@redhat.com This builds seabios such that the dsdt tables are no longer built into the seabios binary. They must be passed to the seabios via fw_cfg. This saves space in the seabios binary for unnecessary dsdt tables. I suspect

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-09 Thread Jason Baron
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:13:59AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 10/09/12 05:35, Jason Baron wrote: From: Jason Baron jba...@redhat.com This builds seabios such that the dsdt tables are no longer built into the seabios binary. They must be passed to the seabios via fw_cfg. This saves

[SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

2012-10-08 Thread Jason Baron
From: Jason Baron jba...@redhat.com This builds seabios such that the dsdt tables are no longer built into the seabios binary. They must be passed to the seabios via fw_cfg. This saves space in the seabios binary for unnecessary dsdt tables. I suspect that this will make other users of Seabios,