On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:42:31AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > On 08/26/2014 10:01 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:18:49PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > >> We now have ACPI support in QEMU as well. In SeaBIOS the TPM patches add > >>the TPM ACPI tables (SSDT, TCPA) if SeaBIOS is building ACPI tables. I > >>suppose this is still the correct thing to do. > >I'd prefer to keep the ACPI code unchanged. New users that want TPM > >functionality on QEMU can use a newer machine type, and users that > >want to use an older machine type for compatibility reasons should not > >see changes to the ACPI definitions. > > So there is no existing use case where SeaBIOS is the only firmware on a > platform (other than on QEMU)? I know coreboot can run SeaBIOS as a payload > and therefore I would agree that in this case coreboot should handle the > ACPI tables.
The acpi code in SeaBIOS was only ever used by QEMU. Other users (coreboot and CSM) always created the acpi tables and passed them to SeaBIOS. -Kevin _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
