On 04/23/15 10:34, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> I'll ask Jordan too about the dynamic feature detection, because there's >> another big hurdle with it (selecting a LockBox library instance at >> runtime, dependent on the presence of SMM). Deciding about SMM support >> at build time would make things hugely easier (because that's how >> firmware for physical platforms is built as well). > > piix/q35 falls into the same category I guess. We are just lucky that > (a) alot of the chipset-specific initialization is not needed on qemu > and (b) we can hide the remaining differences in ovmf-specific modules.
That's precisely it. Thanks Laszlo