[SeaBIOS] Alt SeaBIOS SSDT cpu hotplug
Alexander Graf
agraf at suse.de
Mon Aug 2 10:12:31 CEST 2010
On 02.08.2010, at 07:49, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:41:39AM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>> Kevin,
>>
>> This patch still has issue, It can boot Windows 2008 DataCenter,
>> however, when run "cpu_set cpu online" command, windows 2008
>> Datacenter system shutdown at once.
>
> Thanks for testing.
>
> I've inspected the generated DSDT and SSDT files, and I don't see
> anything wrong with them. (To inspect a generated SSDT, uncomment the
> call to hexdump(), cut and paste the hexdump output into SeaBIOS'
> tools/transdump.py, and then call "iasl -d" on the output.)
>
> It seems the Windows acpi interpreter is significantly different from
> the Linux one. The only guess I have is that Windows doesn't like one
> of the ASL constructs even though they all look valid. I'd try to
> debug this by commenting out parts of the ASL until I narrowed down
> the parts causing the problem. Unfortunately, I don't have Windows
> 2008 to do this directly.
>
> Any other ideas?
Just grab yourself a free copy of the Hyper-V server 2008:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008-r2-arrives-for-free.ars
Alex
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