[edk2-devel] [PATCH v4 3/3] OvmfPkg/Bhyve: install ACPI tables from memory

[Peter Grehan]

On 5/10/23 5:23 PM, Corvin Köhne wrote:
> It's much easier to create configuration dependend ACPI tables for bhyve
> than for OVMF. For this reason, don't use the statically created ACPI
> tables provided by OVMF. Instead prefer the dynamically created ACPI
> tables of bhyve. If bhyve provides no ACPI tables or we are unable to
> detect those, fall back to OVMF tables.
> 
> Ideally, we use the qemu fwcfg interface to pass the ACPI tables from
> bhyve to OVMF. bhyve will support this in the future. However, current
> bhyve executables don't support passing ACPI tables by the qemu fwcfg
> interface. They just copy the ACPI into main memory. For that reason,
> pick up the ACPI tables from main memory.

Acked-by: Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org>



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