On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:23:45PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 20:22 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:53:05PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> > > > > I think we need to figure out what the final fw_cfg interface for > > ACPI, SMBIOS, mptable, and PIR will be. > > Once we have consensus, we can implement this on the OVMF side too. Is > anyone (Laszlo?) looking at that, or should I? > > > > For SMBIOS, I don't think we should use the existing fw_cfg mechanism. > > It's too complicated for what is needed. Instead, one fw_cfg "file" > > entry with the whole smbios table should suffice. > > Agreed. I'd already looked at doing this in OVMF, and run away > screaming. > > > For mptable and PIR, there is no current mechanism, so we can add new > > fw_cfg "files" for them. However, for all of these SeaBIOS needs to > > be able to determine when it needs to create the table and when no > > table should be published at all. > > I'd make it all-or-nothing. Except for a few historical qemu commits if > you're bisecting, why would qemu ever provide a *partial* set of tables?
I think we should just get the config from qemu. Pls take a look at the README patch I posted. It will also help future extensions. > -- > Sent with MeeGo's ActiveSync support. > > David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre > david.woodho...@intel.com Intel Corporation _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
