On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 01:17:50PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:35:07PM +0100, Fred . wrote:
SeaBIOS is used in more than just QEMU.
The DSDT provided by Seabios is not used by anyone but QEMU (and may be XEN).
How about renaming acpi-dsdt.dsl to qemu-acpi-dsdt.dsl to reflect this?
This is not the only qemu specific file. Generally SeaBIOS fulfill two functions. First is legacy BIOS implementation, second is QEMU HW initialization. Mostly the first one is used when Seabios runs on real HW, HW initialization is done by coreboot in this kind of usage. And there is no clean source file separation between QEMU and coreboot use case. The POST code looks like if (CONFIG_COREBOOT) { do it coreboot way (often do nothing)} else {init QEMU HW}.
That said, I am fine with renaming if this really helps someone.
-- Gleb.