(Not sure why the CC list has grown this huge, but I'm adding Drew for good mesaure.)
On 05/15/13 09:27, Hu Tao wrote:
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:21:54AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
On 04/05/13 09:17, Hu Tao wrote:
Method(RDPT, 0, NotSerialized) {Store(PEPT, Local0)Return (Local0)}Method(WRPT, 1, NotSerialized) {Store(Arg0, PEPT)}Please excuse my asking, I haven't been following this -- who's supposed to call these methods? The latest guest kernel patch I managed to find ([PATCH v7] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked -- probably obsolete by now) appears to do a direct outl().
An old version calls WRPT but is buggy, so you see the outl version. This patch is in seabios before the outl version. If you think these methods are needless, feel free to send a patch.
After Drew located the guest kernel commit for me,
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=...
I can see this SeaBIOS patch *is* necessary -- even though the RDPT / WRPT methods are not used for port access, the port number itself is available from ACPI (_SB.PCI0.ISA.PEVT._CRS, identified by the "QEMU0001" HID) to the kernel.
Hu, can you (and are you willing to) relicense this commit (seabios commit e9725dd7) under the 2-clause BSDL so I can port it to OVMF?
(Actually I'm somewhat confused because the first S-o-b is from Paolo. Since I share an employer with Paolo, getting permission from Paolo would be either quite easy or even unnecessary. Anyway it's better to ask!)
Thanks, Laszlo