On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:51:28 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I need to dust RFC off and respin as Paolo wanted to sync APIC ID
> > other way than in RFC and also on list there is v2 ACPI refactoring
> > that x2APIC enablement depends on.
>
> Soft freeze is only one
OS usually expects BIOS to set certain bits in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL
for some features (e.g. VMX and LMCE). QEMU provides a fw_cfg file
"etc/msr_feature_control" to advise bits that should be set in
MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL. If this file exists, SeaBIOS will set the
advised bits in that MSR.