[SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 0/3] use full io address space on q35

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu May 15 07:57:04 CEST 2014


On Di, 2014-05-13 at 11:00 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:58:29PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > Digged out an old patch from the mailing list, to make smm use
> > acpi_pm1a_cnt.  This allows to make the acpi pmbase a variable
> > and figure where to place the registers at runtime.
> > 
> > With these preparations in place we can go move acpi pm registers
> > below 0x1000 for new enougth qemu (2.0+).  The whole 0x1000 -> 0xffff
> > range is free then on q35.
> 
> The series looks okay to me.
> 
> I am a little leery about the way patch one accesses the f-segment
> while in SMM mode.  I do the same in my 32bit driver test series -
> see:
> https://github.com/KevinOConnor/seabios/commits/testing-32bit-drivers
> .  But, I'm leery about making that kind of change days before tagging
> a new release.

Ok, lets merge the patches after the 1.7.5 release then.

cheers,
  Gerd







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