Re: [edk2] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/SMBIOS: Reuse handles supplied by underlying VM

2014-05-19 Thread Anthony PERARD
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 03:21:26PM -0700, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Wei Liu wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34:14PM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:55:15PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > >> > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:31:48PM +0200, Lasz

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/SMBIOS: Reuse handles supplied by underlying VM

2014-05-16 Thread Jordan Justen
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Wei Liu wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34:14PM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:55:15PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote: >> > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:31:48PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> > > On 05/14/14 00:13, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: >> >

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/SMBIOS: Reuse handles supplied by underlying VM

2014-05-15 Thread Wei Liu
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34:14PM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:55:15PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:31:48PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > On 05/14/14 00:13, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > > > > The SMBIOS specification requires some structure ty

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/SMBIOS: Reuse handles supplied by underlying VM

2014-05-14 Thread Gabriel L. Somlo
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:55:15PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:31:48PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > On 05/14/14 00:13, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > > > The SMBIOS specification requires some structure types to > > > contain reference fields to other structures' handles. When >

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/SMBIOS: Reuse handles supplied by underlying VM

2014-05-14 Thread Wei Liu
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:31:48PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 05/14/14 00:13, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > > The SMBIOS specification requires some structure types to > > contain reference fields to other structures' handles. When > > InstallAllStructures() rebuilds the SMBIOS tables by traversin

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/SMBIOS: Reuse handles supplied by underlying VM

2014-05-14 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 05/14/14 00:13, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > The SMBIOS specification requires some structure types to > contain reference fields to other structures' handles. When > InstallAllStructures() rebuilds the SMBIOS tables by traversing > an existing source table, the use of SMBIOS_HANDLE_PI_RESERVED > c

[edk2] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/SMBIOS: Reuse handles supplied by underlying VM

2014-05-13 Thread Gabriel L. Somlo
The SMBIOS specification requires some structure types to contain reference fields to other structures' handles. When InstallAllStructures() rebuilds the SMBIOS tables by traversing an existing source table, the use of SMBIOS_HANDLE_PI_RESERVED causes automatically generated, arbitrary handle numbe