Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] lest pretend that RTC can be used to wakeup from S4

[Gleb Natapov]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:31:37AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 04:33 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > > In theory a guest could check whether RTC alarm reboot is supported,
> > > >  if not it keeps awake, if it is it can set the alarm to sleep.  So
> > > >  if seabios lies it could break that guest.
> >
> > Theoretically possible.
> > > > However that's an unlikely scenario.
> >
> > I think so too.
>
> The alternative would be to get it via fw_cfg.

How will this help? We want to lie that we support RTC wakeup without
actually supporting it.