Il 11/06/2013 03:35, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto: > Two points > 1. You never explained what you mean by un-hardware like. > > Currently bios is in a ROM device, and it has a > template for ACPI tables together with it. > This simply moves the tables to a separate ROM > device (FW CFG), and generalizes the template using > the linker interface. > One ROM is hardware-like but two is un-hardware like? > > ACPI tables are static so it's likely lots of > hardware has at least some of them pre-formatted in flash, > then tweak some things like SRAT a bit.
Also having a "bootstrap processor" was certainly not unheard of some decades ago. Right now we get all sort of SMM hacks instead of adding more processors, but it's certainly not un-hardware like. Maybe we should just have a bytecode interpreter and write the ACPI generator in that language. :) Paolo _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios