On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Leave the old interface code basically as-is. type0 and type1 > individual fields are passed like they are passed today. We don't > change to to pass full tables, and we don't extend that to new table > types. Continue to provide these in parallel to the new interface, for > compatibility with old firmware (and old machine types). > > The code to generate complete tables will only be used for > "etc/smbios/smbios-tables". Only machine types for 2.1 + newer will > provide them, so with older machine types seabios will continue to > generate the smbios tables and guest wouldn't notice a difference.
This does mean that SeaBIOS would need to continue to support generating of smbios tables for the foreseeable future as it would need that support whenever one wanted to run a v2.0 or earlier machine type. It would be nice if a future version of SeaBIOS could drop the smbios generation code. However, I'm okay with either direction. -Kevin
