[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] vcpu hotplug: Setup vcpu add/remove infrastructure

Gleb Natapov gleb at redhat.com
Wed Feb 3 05:55:49 CET 2010


On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:51:52PM -0500, Kevin OConnor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Gleb Natapov <gleb at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Kevin, while testing this patch I noticed that Seabios actually doesn't
> > mark memory ACPI tables reside in as ACPI DATA!
> >
> >
> The ACPI tables gets stored in a "reserved" area.  I thought this was okay -
> I believe Bochs BIOS did the same thing.
> 
Strictly speaking it is OK, but this prevents an OS from reusing this
memory. Bochs BIOS marked this memory area as ACPI DATA.

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			Gleb.



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