Looks like they're where they're supposed to be, but no SLIC. ls /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/ APIC  ASF!  DSDT  dynamic  FACP  FACS  HPET  MCFG  SSDT1  SSDT2  XMAR hexdump -C < /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/XMAR 00000000  58 4d 41 52 e8 00 00 00  01 f9 49 4e 54 45 4c 20  |XMAR......INTEL | 00000010  53 4e 42 20 00 00 00 00  01 00 00 00 49 4e 54 4c  |SNB ........INTL| 00000020  01 00 00 00 23 01 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |....#...........| 00000030  00 00 18 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 d9 fe 00 00 00 00  |................| 00000040  01 08 00 00 00 00 02 00  00 00 58 00 01 00 00 00  |..........X.....| 00000050  00 10 d9 fe 00 00 00 00  03 08 00 00 02 f0 1f 00  |................| 00000060  04 08 00 00 00 f0 0f 00  04 08 00 00 00 f0 0f 01  |................| 00000070  04 08 00 00 00 f0 0f 02  04 08 00 00 00 f0 0f 03  |................| 00000080  04 08 00 00 00 f0 0f 04  04 08 00 00 00 f0 0f 05  |................| 00000090  04 08 00 00 00 f0 0f 06  04 08 00 00 00 f0 0f 07  |................| 000000a0  01 00 28 00 00 00 00 00  00 30 d4 da 00 00 00 00  |..(......0......| 000000b0  ff 1f d5 da 00 00 00 00  01 08 00 00 00 00 1d 00  |................| 000000c0  01 08 00 00 00 00 1a 00  01 00 20 00 00 00 00 00  |.......... .....| 000000d0  00 00 80 db 00 00 00 00  ff ff 9f df 00 00 00 00  |................| 000000e0  01 08 00 00 00 00 02 00                           |........| 000000e8 ________________________________ From: Ross Philipson To: Art Napor Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 6:04 PM Subject: Re: HVM firmware passthrough - helper library On 03/27/2013 12:50 AM, Art Napor wrote: > Works great with the updated libxl commits - thanks. > >  > ./biospt 6 >  > Make SMBIOS file from FW. >  > Fail(1), errno: 2 > > Looks like this does require the sysfs-dmi kmod to expose the dmi > structure for the utility to write out the smbios_fw.bin. > > # ./biospt 6 > Make SMBIOS file from FW. > Make SMBIOS Xen vendor struct. > Wrote SMBIOS structures file: smbios_fw.bin count: 8 > Make ACPI SLIC file from FW. > Fail(3), errno: 2 > > Do the ACPI tables require the same exposure via sysfs? Not sure if this > changes from 2.6 to 3.x kernels. The biospt utility can dump the ACPI > tables using the MMAP option, but not via sysfs on a 3.4.32 system. They are in the same place on my wheezy with 3.2.x kernel. I would be pretty surprised if they moved. Can you go in to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables and see what's there? Maybe try a hexdump -C < SLIC ... > > > Thanks, > Art > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Ross Philipson > *To:* Art Napor ; "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" > > *Sent:* Sunday, March 24, 2013 5:10 PM > *Subject:* Re: HVM firmware passthrough - helper library > > On 03/21/2013 03:42 PM, Art Napor wrote: >  > Ross, >  > >  > I rebuilt Xen 4.2.1 with the V5 patch series and the updated helper >  > library. The biospt utility built cleanly and runs on Dom0 with the >  > aformentioned libraries in place. However, I'm not seeing the SMBIOS >  > strings passed through to the DomU (A Centos 5 VM). Options 1 and 3 >  > using the biostpt utility appear to dump the SMBIOS and ACPI tables, but >  > I'm not sure how to pass the tables in to the VM? > > Look at the related commits to libxl. After the firmware chunks are > given to libxc to load into the new domain, the addresses are returned > to libxl which writes them to xenstore. > >  > >  > [root@localhost biospt]# ./biospt >  > Usage: >  > $ biospt >  > 1 - Write some SMBIOS tables using MMAP >  > 2 - Write some SMBIOS tables using SYSFS >  > 3 - Write some ACPI tables using MMAP >  > 4 - Write some ACPI using SYSFS >  > 5 - Read and trace DMI files >  > 6 - Write out some test files >  > >  > ./biospt 6 >  > Make SMBIOS file from FW. >  > Fail(1), errno: 2 > > This is a rather rough test app for using the library. You should look > closely at the code in it and figure out what it is doing. It does not > have very robust error handling etc. > > Thanks > Ross > >  > >  > >  > - >  > Art >  > >  > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >  > *From:* Ross Philipson > >  > *To:* xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > >  > *Cc:* Art Napor > >  > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:08 PM >  > *Subject:* Re: HVM firmware passthrough - helper library >  > >  > >  > > Ross, >  > > >  > > Finally got back to this project to test out the helper lib using > the v3 >  > > hvm-firmware passthrough patches with Xen 4.2.1. When building from >  > > tools/firmware the build failed with the following output: >  > > >  > > make >  > > gcc -Wl,-soname -Wl,libxenhvm.so.1.0 -shared -o libxenhvm.so.1.0.0 >  > > xenhvm.opic smbios_module.opic acpi_module.opic xh_internal.opic >  > > >  > > /home/ajn131/rpmbuild/SOURCES/xen-4.2.1/tools/firmware/libhvm/../../../tools/xenstore/libxenstore.so >  > > >  > > xenhvm.opic: could not read symbols: File in wrong format >  > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >  > > make: *** [libxenhvm.so.1.0.0] Error 1 >  > > >  > > I was hoping to integrate the build into the RPM. Any thoughts? > Should I >  > > try it with the latest 4.3? >  > > >  > > >  > > Thanks Again, >  > > >  > > - >  > > Art >  > >  > Art, >  > >  > Can you try the attached tarball. A colleague found and fixed a couple >  > of issues in my sample including the face that it was including in the >  > wrong Rules.mk. >  > >  > Thanks >  > Ross >  > >  > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >  > > *From:* Ross Philipson >  > >> >  > > *To:* "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > >  > >" >  > >> >  > > *Cc:* "Art Napor (artnapor@yahoo.com > >)" >  > > >> >  > > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:04 PM >  > > *Subject:* HVM firmware passthrough - helper library >  > > >  > > Attached is a tarball with a helper library for reading host ACPI and >  > > SMBIOS firmware and creating firmware files that can be used with the >  > > HVM firmware passthrough patches I submitted. I used it in my > testing of >  > > the patches and planned to use it later when we moved to a new Xen >  > > version. This library was requested by a few people - I hope you > find it >  > > useful. >  > > >  > > Ross Philipson >  > > Senior Software Engineer >  > > Citrix Systems, Inc >  > > 14 Crosby Drive >  > > Bedford, MA 01730 >  > > 781-301-7949 >  > > ross.philipson@citrix.com > > >  > > >> >  > > >  > >  > >  > >  > >  > > > >