[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] lest pretend that RTC can be used to wakeup from S4

Gleb Natapov gleb at redhat.com
Wed Feb 2 09:42:07 CET 2011


On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:31:37AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 04:33 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  In theory a guest could check whether RTC alarm reboot is supported,
> >>>  if not it keeps awake, if it is it can set the alarm to sleep.  So
> >>>  if seabios lies it could break that guest.
> >>>
> >Theoretically possible.
> >
> >>>  However that's an unlikely scenario.
> >>>
> >I think so too.
> 
> The alternative would be to get it via fw_cfg.
> 
How will this help? We want to lie that we support RTC wakeup without
actually supporting it.

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			Gleb.



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