On 07/30/14 18:35, Stefan Berger wrote: > Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote on 07/30/2014 12:18:02 PM: > >> From: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> >> To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com>, Stefan Berger/Watson/IBM@IBMUS >> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Berger <stef...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> Date: 07/30/2014 12:18 PM >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add ACPI tables for TPM >> >> On 07/30/14 18:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:03:46PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: >> >> Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote on 07/30/2014 11:58:52 AM: >> >> >>> In the short term, probably skip TCPA, or advise users in > documentation >> >>> not to enable the TPM device when running OVMF. >> > >> > Hmm but doesn't OVMF rely on all tables being packed without holes >> > in memory? >> > I remember it did, and if it still does, this breaks unless TCPA is >> > the last ... >> >> Ah, do you mean that the table size field in the ACPI table header of >> TCPA would *not* include the TCG event log that is tacked-on? Yes, that >> would certainly trip up the parser. It advances by looking at the table >> size fields in the headers. > > Is this what finally requires another command for the linker/loader to > allocate a chunk of memory where the size of the to-be-allocated memory > is found > at the location of the pointer ?
No, the above is a limitation of the current OVMF parser. Thanks Laszlo
