Re: [PATCH] optionrom/pvh: scan entire RSDP Area

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/03/20 09:55, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> CCing Paolo
> 
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 02:52:47AM -0800, Joe Richey wrote:
>> From: Joe Richey <address@hidden>
>>
>> Right now the PVH option rom scans for the RSDP from 0xE0000 to
>> 0xE1FFF. This is probobly a typo, it should scan from 0xE0000 to
>> 0xFFFFF.
>>
>> This is actually an issue on some QEMU versions/machines. For example,
>> when I run QEMU the RSDP is placed at 0xf5ad0 which will not be picked
>> up by the current implementation.
>>
>> This bug still allows a Linux guest to boot (in most configurations) as
>> the kernel will just scan for the RSDP if one isn't provided.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joe Richey <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c b/pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c
>> index a015e1bf22..28e79d7fc4 100644
>> --- a/pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c
>> +++ b/pc-bios/optionrom/pvh_main.c
>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ asm (".code32"); /* this code will be executed in 
>> protected mode */
>>  
>>  #define RSDP_SIGNATURE          0x2052545020445352LL /* "RSD PTR " */
>>  #define RSDP_AREA_ADDR          0x000E0000
>> -#define RSDP_AREA_SIZE          2048
>> +#define RSDP_AREA_SIZE          0x00020000
>>  #define EBDA_BASE_ADDR          0x0000040E
>>  #define EBDA_SIZE               1024
>>  
> 
> The patch LGTM!
> 
> When I wrote this code I followed [1], where it is written that it can
> be found in the "memory region from 0x000E0000 to 0x000FFFFF", so it
> should be a typo.
> 
> Thanks for fixing it!
> 
> 
> Fixes: 2785dc7b17 ("optionrom: add new PVH option rom")
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osdev.org/RSDP#Detecting_the_RSDP
> 

Queued, thanks for both the fix and the Cc.

Paolo