[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 2/7] seabios: shadow: make device finding more generic.

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:45:00PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:59:14PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:47:47PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > > pam register offset is north bridge specific.
> > > So determine the offset based on found north bridge.
> > 
> > Is it really just the offset that is north bridge specific?  I thought
> > the entire process was very north bridge specific.
> >
> > If so, I don't think it makes sense to pass back the pam0 register -
> > instead the north bridge specific code should do the necessary work
> > (using helper functions if possible).
> > 
> > I have the same concern with part 3 and 4 of this series.
> 
> I440fx and Q35 (all Intel chipset?) are similar in registers
> which seabios programs, so I choice to abstract it at register offset level.
> I don't expect that other vendor's chipset support is wanted.

Although it isn't currently used, the memory locking support is useful
on real machines too.  I'd prefer a solution that would work on both
qemu and real machines.

It's minor for part 2 of the series, but I found part 3/4 to be hard
to follow due to the way the flow of code jumps between machine
specific code in dev-i440fx.c and the smm code in smm.c.

> If you want more high level abstract, I'll respin the patch set.

I've been meaning to look through the full series of changes in your
repo, but have not yet had a chance to do so.  I hope to get to that
in the next few days.  Sorry for the delay.

-Kevin