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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option |
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Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:40:56 +0100 |
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On Monday 28 July 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
> >> If you care to do this sort of work, you can certainly recompile the
> >> BIOS. The source is there afterall.
> >
> > Indeed, same goes for all the other QEMU options. The question is
> > whether it's useful enough to have an option, or obscure enough not to.
> >
> > I'm inclined to think modifying ACPI tables is obscure, except
> > perhaps for specific tweaks that some versions of Windows or Linux
> > might need to run correctly, or to prevent them from using some
> > hardware feature or other.
>
> In the future, it may be interesting to allow a precompiled ACPI table
> to be loaded and specified as part of a machine configuration file. I
> think it makes a lot more sense if you can actually change the machine
> layout without recompiling.
Why would changing machine layout need to be able to override the ACPI table?
If the ACPI table doesn't match the emulated hardware that's a bug, and IMHO
having users supply their own tables is not a good way to fix that bug.
Paul
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Chris Lalancette, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Gleb Natapov, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Gleb Natapov, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Blue Swirl, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option,
Paul Brook <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Gleb Natapov, 2008/07/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Sebastian Herbszt, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Gleb Natapov, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/29
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Gleb Natapov, 2008/07/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Blue Swirl, 2008/07/30