[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] lest pretend that RTC can be used to wakeup from S4

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Wed Feb 2 09:31:37 CET 2011


On 01/30/2011 04:33 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> >
>> >  In theory a guest could check whether RTC alarm reboot is supported,
>> >  if not it keeps awake, if it is it can set the alarm to sleep.  So
>> >  if seabios lies it could break that guest.
>> >
> Theoretically possible.
>
>> >  However that's an unlikely scenario.
>> >
> I think so too.

The alternative would be to get it via fw_cfg.

Paolo



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