On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 03:55:49PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 06/10/2014 15:52, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto: > > Maybe we should just modify ACPI and rom files in general to use > > something else, not RAM? > > It looked like a good fit initially so we went ahead with it, > > but these things are fairly small, so it's not a problem to > > migrate them as part of the device state. > > Yes, that would have been a good design too, but I'm not sure it's worth > changing it now. So far, it has certainly helped us; it both revealed > bugs (though a bit too late) and kept us honest.
Bugs that surface too late is exactly what worries me. I'll try to look at how hard to implement the above change is. > These patches would be easy to revert from now till 2.2 release, they're > just an incremental improvement on top of 2.1.2. > > I'll post a v2 that includes the linuxboot changes to look at the memory > map, Pls keep linuxboot things a separate patchset. > and keep the 160k padding for the sake of old linuxboot option ROMs > being migrated to 2.2. > > Paolo I think we can drop this for 2.2 machine type. We can also drop the fw cfg file for new machine types. -- MST
