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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V2] hvmloader: Fix FADT table for QEMU Upstream.

To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V2] hvmloader: Fix FADT table for QEMU Upstream.
From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:28:33 +0100
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tobias Geiger <tobias.geiger@xxxxxxxxx>, Xen Devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 27/07/2011 17:00, "Anthony PERARD" <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Send me your tested patch!

 Thanks,
 Keir

>> Or alternatively, we should at least gate the setting of those FADT fields
>> on such a check, it seems to me.



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