Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] [wip] tseg, part1, not (yet) tested

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> I'll ask Jordan too about the dynamic feature detection, because there's
> another big hurdle with it (selecting a LockBox library instance at
> runtime, dependent on the presence of SMM). Deciding about SMM support
> at build time would make things hugely easier (because that's how
> firmware for physical platforms is built as well).

piix/q35 falls into the same category I guess.  We are just lucky that
(a) alot of the chipset-specific initialization is not needed on qemu
and (b) we can hide the remaining differences in ovmf-specific modules.

cheers,
  Gerd