Re: [SeaBIOS] [RfC PATCH 0/2] move apci ports

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 01:56:03PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently the acpi (+smbios) io regions are in the middle of the addres
> space:  At 0xb000 and 0xb100.  And we start allocating I/O ports at
> 0xc000.  piix additionally has some magic io ports (for cpu + pci
> hotplug) between 0xae00 and 0xaffff.
>
> For q35 I'd like to move the acpi ports out if the way, so we can start
> allocating io ports at 0x2000 and use the whole 0x2000 -> 0xffff range.

Is there a shortage of IO ports on q35 without this change?

BTW, this type of change would need to wait until after the next
release.

-Kevin