On Tue, 10 May 2016 09:19:52 -0600 Alex Williamson alex.williamson@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:22:33 -0500 "Kevin O'Connor" kevin@koconnor.net wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 02:39:27PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
QEMU provides two fw_cfg files to support IGD. The first holds the OpRegion data which holds the Video BIOS Table (VBT). This needs to be copied into reserved memory and the address stored in the ASL Storage register of the device at 0xFC offset in PCI config space. The OpRegion is generally 8KB. This file is named "etc/igd-opregion".
The second file tells us the required size of the stolen memory space for the device. This is a dummy file, it has no backing so we only allocate the space without copying anything into it. This space requires 1MB alignment and is generally either 1MB or 2MB, depending on the hardware config. If the user has opted in QEMU to expose additional stolen memory beyond the GTT (GGMS), the GMS may add an additional 32MB to 512MB. The base address of the reserved memory allocated for this is written back to the Base Data of Stolen Memory register (BDSM) at PCI config offset 0x5C on the device. This file is named "etc/igd-bdsm".
Thanks. I'd be interested in seeing how the discussion with Michael and Igor works out (wrt using a standardized interface for communicating addresses between qemu and firmware) before adopting this interface in SeaBIOS.
Apologies if I missed it, but I haven't seen any work in this direction, please point me to it if I'm wrong. Now that QEMU 2.6 is
As far as I know it was only Michael's suggestion but I've not seen actual patches either. As for me, I'm not planning to look at it in near future.
wrapping up, I'd like to get IGD assignment support in for 2.7, but we can't do that without BIOS support. How shall we proceed? Thanks,
Alex