Merge the SLIC patch

[Fred .Flintstone]

There is a patch for ACPI Table Extraction / SeaBIOS SLIC Integration.

https://github.com/ghuntley/seaslic

Why isn't the SLIC patch merged into upstreams SeaBIOS?

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:41:57AM +0100, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
> There is a patch for ACPI Table Extraction / SeaBIOS SLIC Integration.
>
> https://github.com/ghuntley/seaslic
>
> Why isn't the SLIC patch merged into upstreams SeaBIOS?

I doubt you need that.  seabios loads the acpi tables from qemu these
days.  Probably "qemu-system-x86_64 -acpitable
file=/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SLIC" just works.

cheers,
  Gerd

[Fred .Flintstone]

But what about when you run SeaBIOS on a real machine instead of in a
virtual machine?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:59 PM Gerd Hoffmann  wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:41:57AM +0100, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
> > There is a patch for ACPI Table Extraction / SeaBIOS SLIC Integration.
> >
> > https://github.com/ghuntley/seaslic
> >
> > Why isn't the SLIC patch merged into upstreams SeaBIOS?
>
> I doubt you need that.  seabios loads the acpi tables from qemu these
> days.  Probably "qemu-system-x86_64 -acpitable
> file=/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SLIC" just works.
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:01:21PM +0100, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
> But what about when you run SeaBIOS on a real machine instead of in a
> virtual machine?

acpi tables come from coreboot then.

[Fred .Flintstone]

Ok, thanks.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:31 PM Gerd Hoffmann  wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:01:21PM +0100, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
> > But what about when you run SeaBIOS on a real machine instead of in a
> > virtual machine?
>
> acpi tables come from coreboot then.