Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-12 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 08/06/2017 19:44, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 08:10:17PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 06/05/17 18:02, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:36:23AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: On 06/02/17 17:45, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > The patches can c

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-08 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 08:10:17PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 06/05/17 18:02, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:36:23AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 06/02/17 17:45, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> > >>> The patches can cause linker/loader breakage when old firmware is boo

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-06 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 06/05/17 18:02, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:36:23AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 06/02/17 17:45, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> >>> The patches can cause linker/loader breakage when old firmware is booted >>> on new QEMU. However, that's no problem (it's nothing new), the

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-06 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 06/05/17 11:54, Igor Mammedov wrote: > BTW: > how OVMF would deal with booting 32-bit OS if it would allocate > ACPI tables above 4Gb? > For BIOS on baremetal I'd expect some switch in settings, something > like "Disable 32-bit OS support". In order to answer your question exhaustively, I'd ha

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-05 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:36:23AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 06/02/17 17:45, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > The patches can cause linker/loader breakage when old firmware is booted > > on new QEMU. However, that's no problem (it's nothing new), the next > > release of QEMU should bundle the new f

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-05 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 09:36:23 +0200 Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 06/02/17 17:45, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > The patches can cause linker/loader breakage when old firmware is booted > > on new QEMU. However, that's no problem (it's nothing new), the next > > release of QEMU should bundle the new firmwar

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-05 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Laszlo Ersek (ler...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 06/02/17 17:45, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > The patches can cause linker/loader breakage when old firmware is booted > > on new QEMU. However, that's no problem (it's nothing new), the next > > release of QEMU should bundle the new firmware binaries as

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-03 Thread Stefan Berger
On 06/02/2017 07:20 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: On 06/02/17 18:30, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 05:45:21PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: Hi, this message is cross-posted to three lists (qemu, seabios, edk2). I'll follow up with three patch series, one series for each project. I'l

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-03 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 06/02/17 17:45, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > The patches can cause linker/loader breakage when old firmware is booted > on new QEMU. However, that's no problem (it's nothing new), the next > release of QEMU should bundle the new firmware binaries as always. Dave made a good point (which I should have

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-02 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 06/02/17 18:30, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 05:45:21PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this message is cross-posted to three lists (qemu, seabios, edk2). I'll >> follow up with three patch series, one series for each project. I'll >> cross-post all of the patches

Re: [Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-02 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 05:45:21PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Hi, > > this message is cross-posted to three lists (qemu, seabios, edk2). I'll > follow up with three patch series, one series for each project. I'll > cross-post all of the patches as well, but I'll add the project name in > the "ba

[Qemu-devel] allocation zone extensions for the firmware linker/loader

2017-06-02 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi, this message is cross-posted to three lists (qemu, seabios, edk2). I'll follow up with three patch series, one series for each project. I'll cross-post all of the patches as well, but I'll add the project name in the "bag of tags" in the subject lines. The QEMU series introduces two extension