[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 1/2] fw/acpi: Build MADT the way commodity BIOSes do

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Feb 1 16:05:49 CET 2017


On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 12:19:31PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:32:55 +0000
> "Sironi, Filippo" <sironi at amazon.de> wrote:
> > So, my understanding is that even QEMU needs to be fixed and I can
> > work to provide a patch.  However, as I was mentioning before, I'm
> > also interesting in updating SeaBIOS since one can use it without
> > using QEMU.
> most of smp initialization in SeaBIOS is called in QEMU only mode so
> ordering in legacy MADT is the least of issues if one would like to
> run SeaBIOS on baremetal.

FYI, SeaBIOS runs on real hardware with coreboot, but in that setup
coreboot does all the SMP initialization and coreboot creates the ACPI
tables.

-Kevin



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