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Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:05:06 +0200 |
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On 2011-08-29 13:00, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 01:25 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>
>>> Can't seabios just poke at the hpet itself and see if it exists or not?
>>>
>>
>> Would be hard for the BIOS to guess the locations of the blocks unless
>> we define the addresses used by QEMU as something like base + hpet_no *
>> block_size in all cases.
>>
>
> Currently we have a fixed address. We could do:
>
> if available in fw_cfg:
> use that (may indicate no hpet)
> elif fixed address works:
> use that
> else
> no hpet
Currently, we also only have a single HPET block, but that's just
because of some QEMU limitations that will vanish sooner or later. Then
nothing will prevent multiple "-device hpet,base=XXX".
Jan
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] windows workload: many ept_violation and mmio exits, Alexander Graf, 2011/08/28
- [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios (was: Re: windows workload: many ept_violation and mmio exits), Jan Kiszka, 2011/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios (was: Re: windows workload: many ept_violation and mmio exits), Kevin O'Connor, 2011/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios, Avi Kivity, 2011/08/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios, Jan Kiszka, 2011/08/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios, Avi Kivity, 2011/08/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios,
Jan Kiszka <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios, Avi Kivity, 2011/08/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios, Jan Kiszka, 2011/08/29