[SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 9/9] seabios: Build the dsdt separately

[Gleb Natapov]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 08:04:12PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:35:15PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> > From: Jason Baron <jbaron at redhat.com>
> > 
> > This builds seabios such that the dsdt tables are no longer built into the
> > seabios binary. They must be passed to the seabios via fw_cfg. This saves
> > space in the seabios binary for unnecessary dsdt tables.
> > 
> > I suspect that this will make other users of Seabios, besides qemu unhappy,
> > but I'm not sure.
> 
> Only qemu/kvm uses the acpi support in seabios.  (If one excludes
> bochs which hasn't really used seabios.)  Coreboot and Xen both deploy
> acpi completely separately from seabios.
> 
> Instead of moving just the dsdt to qemu, though, can we move all acpi
> tables into qemu?  Moving just the dsdt can lead to conflicts with the
> generated ssdt code and potentially some of the other acpi tables.
> 
> The only seabios acpi dependency that pops into mind is the memory
> addresses of the acpi tables themselves.  It should be trivial to have
> seabios create the rsdt/rsdp while pulling all the remaining acpi
> tables from qemu via fw_cfg.  Almost all the tables in acpi describe
> hardware and not the firmware.  Are there other cases where the
> firmware needs to have input when generating the contents of an acpi
> table?
> 
There is a BDAT OperationRegion that points to memory allocated by
Seabios.

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			Gleb.