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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] Commit
 77af8a2b95b79699de650965d5228772743efe84 breaks Windows 2000 support
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
Cc: Phil Dennis-Jordan <phil@philjordan.eu>, seabios@seabios.org, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>, Phil Dennis-Jordan <lists@philjordan.eu>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On 27/07/2017 10:39, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> C - We'd be introducing "shared ownership" of the acpi
>>> tables.  Some
>>>     of the tables would be produced by QEMU and some of them by
>>>     SeaBIOS.  Explaining when and why to future developers would be
>>> a
>>>     challenge.
>>
>> The advantage is that the same shared ownership is already present in
>> OVMF.  The RSDP/RSDT/XSDT are entirely created by the firmware in
>> OVMF.
> 
> Hmm, seabios could do the same then, and we would not need a lockstep
> update?

That's fine by me too.  I'll try to make a patch.

Paolo