On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 03:40:16PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > Could we just have qemu build the hpet tables and pass them through to
> > > seabios? Perhaps using the qemu_cfg_acpi_additional_tables() method.
> > >
> > Possible, and I considered that. I personally prefer to pass minimum
> > information required for seabios to discover underlying HW and leave
> > ACPI table creation to seabios. That is how things done for HW that
> > seabios can actually detect. If we will go your way pretty soon we will
> > move creation of ACPI/SMBIOS/MP tables into qemu and IMHO this will be
> > step backworkds.
>
> Why would creation of all the tables in qemu be a bad thing or a step
> in the wrong direction?
>
See Avi's answer. All those tables are firmware/OS interface and as such
may (and some definitely do) contain information known only to BIOS.
--
Gleb.
