On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:02:52PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 01/09/2018 10:14 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:00:44AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
is it possible to save a few bytes, a pointer, across a reboot? I havetried to do this by allocating a memory chunk in the fsegement and storing the pointer there surrounded by 2 'magic' 32 bit values. When trying to find the magic values on reboot early in handle_post() it doesn't seem to find them anymore. Is there another memory segment where SeaBIOS could store the few bytes and find them again?
Didn't you have that implemented with the "Support Physical Presence Interface Spec" patches you made back in 2015?
Yes. Back then the bytes shared between BIOS and ACPI were located in a MMIO memory area of the TPM TIS, which was basically a hack to save the few bytes across reboot. This time we are trying to embed these bytes in the ACPI stream where it would be allocated similar to the log area for the TPM. Besides that there would be a QEMU ACPI table (with name 'QEMU') to get the address from for that memory area. An ACPI variable would also get that address and use it in the address field of OperationRegion().
I'm a bit confused by the above. QEMU dynamically generates the ACPI tables today. So, why go through the hoops above - why not just directly generate the ACPI table with whatever info you need? If you need to have some storage across boots, why not create a virtual device and have the ACPI code read/write to that virtual address? As I understand it, this is already done for other devices in QEMU.
-Kevin