[coreboot] [PATCH] Seabios on Virtutech Simics x86-440bx model

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:30:47AM +0100, Magnus Christensson wrote:
> I'm not sure how work is divided between Coreboot and Seabios. Does  
> Coreboot do all the machine specific initialization? Then the LINT LVTs  
> should already have been initialized.

Yes.  Coreboot is tasked with initializing machine specific hardware
(eg, cpus, memory controllers, pci).  Coreboot also provides the bios
tables (eg, mptable, acpi).

> Is KVM also using the QEMU port interface from paravirt.c?

Yes.

>If so, we  
> could do the following:
>
> if (qemu_cfg_use_cmos_smp_count()) {
>     u8 cmos_smp_count = inb_cmos(CMOS_BIOS_SMP_COUNT);
>     while (cmos_smp_count + 1 != readl(&CountCPUs))
>          ;
> } else {
>     msleep(10);
> }

That's okay with me, but it would require patching qemu to reserve a
new qemu_cfg id for QEMU_CFG_SKIP_CMOS_SMP_COUNT.

> What does the QEMU paravirt device return for an unknown request?

I believe it does.

-Kevin