[SeaBIOS] Alt SeaBIOS SSDT cpu hotplug

[Alexander Graf]

On 02.08.2010, at 17:55, Kevin O'Connor wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:12:31AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 02.08.2010, at 07:49, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:41:39AM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>>> 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
> 
> I downloaded and installed it, but I can't reproduce the crash.  It
> seems like a really stripped down version of Windows, so I can't tell
> if it actually worked or not either.

I haven't tried for a while now, but last time I used that stripped down version I could log in as administrator. Maybe it was through RDP only. But from there it was almost a fully functional copy of Windows that certainly sufficed to do simple functionality tests.

Alex