Hi,

> In some cases when the SMBIOS tables are small enough (both in legacy
> and non-legacy mode) - These tables are allocated in FSEG instead of
> high-mem, specifically Type0->release_date string which might cause
> SystemBiosDate to change - depending on its value. This leads to an
> inconsistent behaviour that depends on the SMBIOS table sizes.
> 
> We fix this inconsistency by controlling which dates appear in FSEG:
> 
>     * Introducing fw_cfg key 'etc/win-bios-date' to control the date
>       that appears in FSEG(0xFFF5).

I don't think we need a separate fw_cfg file for this.

If qemu provides a type0 table we can just take the date from it.

If qemu does not provide a type0 table we should not have a
inconsistency in the first place.

cheers,
  Gerd
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