Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] acpi: hide 64-bit PCI hole for Windows XP

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:25:00AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > I don't think SeaBIOS should continue to do the above once the tables
> > are moved to QEMU.  QEMU has all the info SeaBIOS has, so it can
> > generate the tables correctly on its own.
> 
> The loader script provided by qemu has fixup instructions, which is
> needed to fixup pointers to other acpi tables.  The idea is to use that
> mechanism to also allow th firmware to fixup addresses like pmbase in
> the qemu-generated tables.

Yes, but why should QEMU tell SeaBIOS to modify the table for pmbase
when it can just modify the table itself?

-Kevin