Re: [edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-28 Thread Chen Fan
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 12:29 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 02/27/14 11:05, Chen Fan wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 13:31 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 02/26/14 09:43, Chen Fan wrote: > > >>> what features will be provided by MP services? the smp feature includes > >>> detect and initializ

Re: [edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-27 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 02/27/14 11:05, Chen Fan wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 13:31 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 02/26/14 09:43, Chen Fan wrote: >>> what features will be provided by MP services? the smp feature includes >>> detect and initialize the all CPUs in SeaBios. >> >> Basically, the same. See >> >> 1

Re: [edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-27 Thread Chen Fan
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 13:31 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 02/26/14 09:43, Chen Fan wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 12:59 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 02/24/14 05:19, Chen Fan wrote: > > >>> 26. smbios > >> > >> The SMBIOS integration that you might have become accustomed to between > >> q

Re: [edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-26 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 02/26/14 09:43, Chen Fan wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 12:59 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 02/24/14 05:19, Chen Fan wrote: >>> 26. smbios >> >> The SMBIOS integration that you might have become accustomed to between >> qemu and SeaBIOS is not upstream OVMF. > I'm confused, I have seen the "

Re: [edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-26 Thread Chen Fan
Hi Andrew, On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 21:28 -0800, Andrew Fish wrote: > Chen, > > > You also have to remember that BIOS requires a mixture of 16-bit > assembly APIs and 1970s (and early 1980s) hardware devices to exist. > These 1970’s hardware devices still exist in hardware (or are emulated > in SMM

Re: [edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-26 Thread Chen Fan
Hi Laszlo, at first, thank you for your important feedback. On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 12:59 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 02/24/14 05:19, Chen Fan wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm a novice with OVMF, so please pardon me if I make any mistake. > > > > I have made a list about the feature diffe

Re: [edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-24 Thread Andrew Fish
Chen, You also have to remember that BIOS requires a mixture of 16-bit assembly APIs and 1970s (and early 1980s) hardware devices to exist. These 1970’s hardware devices still exist in hardware (or are emulated in SMM) to support BIOS, option ROMs, and boot loader compatibility. Also the BIOS

Re: [edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-24 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 02/24/14 05:19, Chen Fan wrote: > Hi all, > I'm a novice with OVMF, so please pardon me if I make any mistake. > > I have made a list about the feature differences between OVMF and > Seabios after investigation using QEMU. I simply use seabios source code > file name as the feature's na

[edk2] investigate features differences between ovmf and seabios with QEMU

2014-02-23 Thread Chen Fan
Hi all, I'm a novice with OVMF, so please pardon me if I make any mistake. I have made a list about the feature differences between OVMF and Seabios after investigation using QEMU. I simply use seabios source code file name as the feature's name, then I made the following categorize about