[SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28

[Jordan Justen]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 05/31/13 09:09, Jordan Justen wrote:
>>
>> > Why is updating the ACPI tables in seabios viewed as such a burden?
>> > Either qemu does it, or seabios... (And, OVMF too, but I don't think
>> > you guys are concerned with that. :)
>>
>> I am :)
>>
>> > On the flip side, why is moving the ACPI tables to QEMU such an issue?
>> > It seems like Xen and virtualbox both already do this. Why is running
>> > iasl not an issue for them?
>>
>> I think something was mentioned about iasl having problems on BE
>> machines? I could be easily wrong but I *guess* qemu's hosts x targets
>> (emulate what on what) set is a proper superset of xen's and
>> virtualbox's. Presumably if you want to run an x86 guest on a MIPS host,
>> and also want to build qemu on the same MIPS (or SPARC) host, you'd have
>> to run iasl there too.
>
> You guys should take a look at the patch series I posted.
>
> That's solved there by the means of keeping iasl output in qemu git tree.
> configure checks for a working iasl and enables/disables
> using this pre-processed output accordingly.
> Everyone developing ASL code would still need working iasl
> but that's already the case today.

I'm sorry the I haven't had time to review your series yet. But, from
what you saying about it in this thread, it sounds like a good plan.

-Jordan