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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
	aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Beginning implementing the AMD IOMMU emulation
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:38:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB2DFE3.50607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100330194056.GB24846@8bytes.org>

On 03/30/2010 10:40 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
>> In short, this demonstrates a mechanism of inserting ACPI tables without
>> modifying SeaBIOS or other BIOS implementations. I also have a SeaBIOS
>> equivalent, but I think this approach is better, at least at the moment.
>>      
> I like the approach implemented in this patchset because of its
> simplicity. The right place for building acpi tables is the bios,
> though. I am fine with both ways. Anthony, Avi, what do you
> think about it?
>    

I agree.  Let qemu emulate the hardware, build the tables in the BIOS.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Beginning implementing the AMD IOMMU emulation
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:38:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB2DFE3.50607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100330194056.GB24846@8bytes.org>

On 03/30/2010 10:40 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
>> In short, this demonstrates a mechanism of inserting ACPI tables without
>> modifying SeaBIOS or other BIOS implementations. I also have a SeaBIOS
>> equivalent, but I think this approach is better, at least at the moment.
>>      
> I like the approach implemented in this patchset because of its
> simplicity. The right place for building acpi tables is the bios,
> though. I am fine with both ways. Anthony, Avi, what do you
> think about it?
>    

I agree.  Let qemu emulate the hardware, build the tables in the BIOS.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30  8:20 [RFC PATCH 0/7] Beginning implementing the AMD IOMMU emulation Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] acpi: qemu_realloc() might return a different pointer Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] acpi: split and rename acpi_table_add() Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] acpi: move table header definition into pc.h Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] sparc: rename hw/iommu.c Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30 17:06   ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-30 17:06     ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-30 19:28     ` Joerg Roedel
2010-03-30 19:28       ` Joerg Roedel
2010-03-30 20:00       ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-30 20:00         ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-30 20:15         ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30 20:15           ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-31  7:27     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-31  7:27       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-30  8:20 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] x86-64: AMD IOMMU stub Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30 20:37   ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-30 20:37     ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-03-30  8:20 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] acpi: cleanup acpi_checksum() Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] acpi: fix bug in acpi_checksum() caused by garbage in checksum field Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30  8:20   ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2010-03-30 15:10   ` Richard Henderson
2010-03-30 15:10     ` Richard Henderson
2010-03-30 19:40 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] Beginning implementing the AMD IOMMU emulation Joerg Roedel
2010-03-30 19:40   ` [Qemu-devel] " Joerg Roedel
2010-03-31  5:38   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-03-31  5:38     ` Avi Kivity

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