[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 1/4] Fix return type of le64_to_cpu() and be64_to_cpu()

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Feb 23 17:47:26 CET 2013


On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 11:38 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 04:28:06PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 10:00 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > Patch 2 and 3 look okay to me - if there are no further comments I'll
> > > push them.
> > 
> > I think we're fairly happy with them. Laszlo put together the OVMF side
> > (creating ACPI 2.0 tables instead of 1.0 and filling in the RESET_REG)
> > and I've tested that it's doing the right thing. We should probably do
> > something similar on the SeaBIOS side when it's creating its own tables,
> > and feed same to acpi_set_reset_reg().
> 
> IMO, we need to move the ACPI table creation (and PIR/MPTABLE/SMBIOS)
> to QEMU and just have QEMU pass the tables to SeaBIOS for it to copy
> into memory like it does on CSM, coreboot, and Xen.

I believe it's on Laszlo's TODO list.

> If you want to call acpi_set_reset_reg() from pciinit.c (like the way
> pmtimer_setup() is called) or something similar, that's fine with me.

If we actually *created* ACPI 2.0 tables with a RESET_REG I'd have done
so already. As it is, I'm happy to wait until we do so, or until we do,
or until we get the tables from Qemu.

-- 
dwmw2

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