Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Commit 77af8a2b95b79699de650965d5228772743efe84 breaks Windows 2000 support

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 27/07/2017 10:39, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > C - We'd be introducing "shared ownership" of the acpi
> > > tables.  Some
> > >     of the tables would be produced by QEMU and some of them by
> > >     SeaBIOS.  Explaining when and why to future developers would be
> > > a
> > >     challenge.
> >
> > The advantage is that the same shared ownership is already present in
> > OVMF.  The RSDP/RSDT/XSDT are entirely created by the firmware in
> > OVMF.
>
> Hmm, seabios could do the same then, and we would not need a lockstep
> update?

That's fine by me too.  I'll try to make a patch.

Paolo