Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/6] ACPI: Add Virtual Machine Generation ID support

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 01/17/17 15:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 02:00:58PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>> Question is how you'd get address of it and I think that's where
>> writable fwcfg files come in play.
>> I'd prefer fwcfg_loader in firmware to write it back after buffer
>> allocation is done as it's already has utilities for fw_cfg,
>> but that probably would mean extending loader protocol to support
>> new writeback command.
> 
> Right. It's quite easy to do as at least seabios was written to
> ignore commands it does not recognize. So with old bios you
> just don't get a write. Not sure about UEFI, worth checking.

Same; OVMF skips (and logs) unknown commands.

> 
>> PS, address one would get from guest should be migrated as well
> 
> IIRC writeable fw cfg blobs are migrated automatically.
> 

When added with rom_add_blob() or derivative functions / function-like
macros, they are.

Thanks
Laszlo