On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:46:40 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote:

> qemu provides acpi and smbios tables via fw_cfg for many years
> now.  The builtin tables shipped by seabios are only used as
> fallback for old qemu versions.
> 
> qemu is about to drop backward compatibility for old versions,
> machine types for versions 1.4 to 1.7 are deprecated, which
> turns the fallbacks into dead code.
> 
> This patch flips the default for the config options controlling
> the fallback smbios and acpi tables from 'Yes' to 'No'.  Eventually
> the code will be removed altogether at some point in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com>

> ---
>  src/Kconfig | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig
> index 3a8ffa15fded..83ddf45143c3 100644
> --- a/src/Kconfig
> +++ b/src/Kconfig
> @@ -494,25 +494,25 @@ menu "BIOS Tables"
>              Support generation of MPTable.
>      config SMBIOS
>          bool "SMBIOS"
> -        default y
> +        default n
>          help
>              Support generation of SM BIOS tables.  This is also
>              sometimes called DMI.
>      config ACPI
>          bool "ACPI"
> -        default y
> +        default n
>          help
>              Support generation of ACPI tables.
>      config ACPI_DSDT
>          bool "Include default ACPI DSDT"
> -        default y
> +        default n
>          depends on ACPI
>          help
>              Include default DSDT ACPI table in BIOS.
>              Required for QEMU 1.3 and older.
>              This option can be disabled for QEMU 1.4 and newer
>              to save some space in the ROM file.
> -            If unsure, say Y.
> +            If unsure, say N.
>      config FW_ROMFILE_LOAD
>          bool "Load BIOS tables from ROM files"
>          depends on QEMU_HARDWARE

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