Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu / seabios ACPI table interface

2013-03-22 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 05:09:53PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > I'm confused. What are the requirements? Here's my suggested implementation: - Have qemu create the ACPI tables in new fw_cfg "file" entries; one "file" per table. Have QEMU put ACPI tables grouped in /etc/acpi/ - for example /e

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu / seabios ACPI table interface

2013-03-22 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 22/03/2013 17:09, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto: > I'm confused. What are the requirements? > > (1) should unpatched qemu work with patched seabios? Yes. > (2) should patched qemu work with unpatched seabios? No. > Considering patched qemu + patched seabios, > (3) should qemu dynamically control

[Qemu-devel] qemu / seabios ACPI table interface

2013-03-22 Thread Laszlo Ersek
I'm confused. What are the requirements? (1) should unpatched qemu work with patched seabios? (2) should patched qemu work with unpatched seabios? Considering patched qemu + patched seabios, (3) should qemu dynamically control table origin/contents per table? (4) should qemu be able to suppress/d