On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 10:07:31AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 06/03/2013 09:56, Hu Tao ha scritto:
> >> >
> >> > Something like this should work (in SeaBIOS's src/acpi-dsdt-isa.dsl):
> >> >
> >> > Device(PEVT) {
> >> > Name(_HID, EisaId("QEMU0001"))
> >> > OperationRegion(PEOR, SystemIO, 0x505, 0x01)
> >> > Field(PEOR, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve) {
> >> > PEPT, 8,
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > Method(_STA, 0, NotSerialized) {
> >> > Store(PEPT, Local0)
> >> > If (LEqual(Local0, Zero)) {
> >> > Return (0x00)
> >> > } Else {
> >> > Return (0x0F)
> >> > }
> >> > }
> > IIUC, here _STA reads from ioport 0x505, if the result is 0, then the
> > device is not present. Otherwise, the device is present. But as Gleb
> > said, ''the data you read from unassigned port is not guarantied to be
> > zero, it may depend on QEMU version''. What should I do to tell if the
> > device is present or not correctly?
>
> The firmware is tied to the QEMU version, so you can rely on unassigned
> ports returning zero.
>
> Later we can change this to use fw-cfg.
>
I thought we agreed to do it from the start :)
--
Gleb.
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