[this is a follow-up email; I took qemu-discuss and qemu-devel off the distribution list]
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 4:04 AM Igor Mammedov imammedo@redhat.com wrote:
Legacy MP table is not actively maintained part of the code, hence it's configuration which is not tested. However if someone is interested in maintaining this, one should contribute at least a testcase that will warn developers early if usecase is broken. We can't promise not breaking it ever but at least we would be able to document any breaking changes in release notes.
May I ask a clarification question? Is it correct that the only option to not use the MP tables and learn the CPU configuration would be to implement support for ACPI? For a small educational OS like xv6 or Pintos, we're aiming at keeping the codebase small, which is why so far we haven't taken this step. Is there a way to learn the CPU configuration without using ACPI that involves relatively little code?
- Godmar