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

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 09:14:37 CEST 2012


  Hi,

> 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.

For now the plan is to keep the dsdt in the seabios git repo, but
install them next to bios.bin, then have qemu pick the correct one
depending on the machine type.

> The only seabios acpi dependency that pops into mind is the memory
> addresses of the acpi tables themselves.

There is also the BDAT in the SSDT and the patching logic ...

cheers,
  Gerd




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