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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V2] hvmloader: Fix FADT table for QEMU Upstream.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 18:48, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thinking about this some more I wonder whether this will be correct for old
> Qemu. Furthermore, we don't actually have a legacy/SMM component in our
> virtual firmware, so advertising the enable/disable mechanism via
> SMI_CMD_IOPORT is a bit pointless.
>
> Could we instead dynamically handle this in in hvmloader's acpi-handling
> code something like:
> if ( !SCI_EN ) // must be new qemu if so
> outb(SMI_CMD_IOPORT, PIIX4_ACPI_ENABLE)
> BUG_ON(!SCI_EN)
I just try that, and that works fine. So it's fine to me to do that
instead of providing an IOPort that is not handle by the
qemu-xen-legacy.
> Or alternatively, we should at least gate the setting of those FADT fields
> on such a check, it seems to me.
--
Anthony PERARD
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