Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 1/2] Add config option to move PORT_ACPI_PM_BASE out of the way

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Mi, 2014-02-05 at 20:04 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:04:37AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann
>
> Can't we detect this at runtime by reading the ACPI tables from QEMU?
> (Indeed, if it is a SeaBIOS config setting, how will QEMU know what to
> put in the ACPI tables?)

qemu will look at the chipset registers programmed by the firmware and
fill acpi accordingly.  Which reminds me that this only works with qemu
1.8+ where qemu actually generates the acpi tables, so I should update
the help text accordingly (raise minimum qemu version from 1.4 to 1.8).

cheers,
  Gerd