Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-04 Thread josh
On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 01:21:57AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 09/03/15 23:25, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > >> In any case, if what you need resembles a "general virtio filesystem", > >> then please just use that -- a virtio

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 09/03/15 23:25, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> In any case, if what you need resembles a "general virtio filesystem", >> then please just use that -- a virtio-block or virtio-scsi disk, with a >> normal filesystem on it. The proto

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread josh
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 09/03/15 18:41, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 05:53:45PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 09/03/15 16:50, Josh Triplett wrote: > > >>> Do you virtualize those I/O ports by CPU, to make them thread-safe,

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 09/03/15 18:41, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 05:53:45PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 09/03/15 16:50, Josh Triplett wrote: >>> Do you virtualize those I/O ports by CPU, to make them thread-safe, or >>> does the last address written to 0x510 get saved system-wide, ma

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread josh
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 05:53:45PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 09/03/15 16:50, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 11:16:40AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> Then this payload is passed to the guest firmware (SeaBIOS or OVMF) over > >> "fw_cfg" (which is a simple protocol, comprisi

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Jake Edge
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:41:57 +0200 Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Side point: > > On 09/03/15 11:16, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > > I just found the LWN.net article with the title in the subject: > > > > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/655992/04701db2bbb7e716/ > > > > ("Thank you LWN", of course. :)) > > I

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Moore, Robert
> -Original Message- > From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 8:54 AM > To: Josh Triplett > Cc: edk2-devel-01; qemu devel list; Michael Tsirkin; Igor Mammedov; Marcel > Apfelbaum; Paolo Bonzini; Shannon Zhao; Moore, Robert; Smith, Jonathan D; >

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Moore, Robert
> -Original Message- > From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:17 AM > To: Moore, Robert; Josh Triplett > Cc: edk2-devel-01; qemu devel list; Michael Tsirkin; Igor Mammedov; Marcel > Apfelbaum; Paolo Bonzini; Shannon Zhao; Smith, Jonathan D; Ja

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 09/03/15 17:57, Moore, Robert wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com] >> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 8:54 AM >> To: Josh Triplett >> Cc: edk2-devel-01; qemu devel list; Michael Tsirkin; Igor Mammedov; Marcel >> Apfelbaum; Paolo Bonzini;

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 09/03/15 16:50, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 11:16:40AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> Hi Josh, >> >> I just found the LWN.net article with the title in the subject: >> >> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/655992/04701db2bbb7e716/ >> >> ("Thank you LWN", of course. :)) >> >> This

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread josh
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:50:07AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 11:16:40AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > I'm excited because for virtualization we might have the reverse use > > case: use BITS to test / debug / develop the ACPI generator of QEMU. :) > > Awesome. Unit tes

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 11:16:40AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Hi Josh, > > I just found the LWN.net article with the title in the subject: > > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/655992/04701db2bbb7e716/ > > ("Thank you LWN", of course. :)) > > This got me kind of excited. In your presentation, a

Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Side point: On 09/03/15 11:16, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > I just found the LWN.net article with the title in the subject: > > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/655992/04701db2bbb7e716/ > > ("Thank you LWN", of course. :)) I've just been advised in private, well-meaningly, that I shouldn't post LWN

[Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

2015-09-03 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi Josh, I just found the LWN.net article with the title in the subject: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/655992/04701db2bbb7e716/ ("Thank you LWN", of course. :)) This got me kind of excited. In your presentation, according to the article, you were using KVM and OVMF to showcase the ACPI featur