On Wed, 2023-04-05 at 07:54 +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > > Using the qemu fwcfg has one big disadvantage: > > Bhyve's fwctl and qemu's fwcfg can't be used at the same time. Due > > to > > backward compatibility reasons, bhyve uses fwctl as default. So, > > using > > qemu's fwcfg to locate the rsdp only works, if the user changes his > > bhyve call. > > I don't want to use fwctl to locate the rsdp because IMHO we should > > migrate to fwcfg. So, we shouldn't add new features to fwctl. > > Ah ok. >
I take this as confirmation. If no one else complains, I'm going to send this patch to the EDKII project next week. > > Btw: I'm also preparing some patches to support qemu's acpi table > > loader. So, if we like to use qemu's fwcfg, we should use the > > loader > > instead of an own baked solution. > > Yes: that's a much better solution. The bhyve-generated ones are > very > size-limited. > FYI: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38438 and https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38439 add support for qemu's table loader to bhyve. -- Kind regards, Corvin
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