Re: [Qemu-devel] [ARM SMBIOS V1 PATCH 0/6] SMBIOS Support for ARM

[Andrew Jones]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 08:35:16PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 08/05/15 19:35, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 5 August 2015 at 18:16, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On 07/28/15 08:00, Wei Huang wrote:
[...]
> SMBIOS is usually not needed by the guest OS or the firmware. The spec says,

I think SMBIOS is the only way we can expose to an ACPI-booted ARM
guest (without heuristics) that it's a QEMU/KVM guest. While that
information isn't useful in most cases, and we should do our best to
avoid its need in almost all cases, there are times it's nice to have
(or necessary for distros...)

drew