Use of a flash memory device for the BIOS was added in series "[PATCH
v10 0/8] PC system flash support", commit 4732dca..1b89faf, v1.1.
Flash vs. ROM is a guest-visible difference. Thus, flash use had to
be suppressed for machine types pc-1.0 and older. This was
accomplished by adding a dummy device "pc-sysfw" with property
"rom_only":
* Non-zero rom_only means "use ROM". Default for pc-1.0 and older.
* Zero rom_only means "maybe use flash". Default for newer machines.
Not only is the dummy device ugly, it was also retroactively added to
the older machine types! Fortunately, it's not guest-visible (thus no
immediate guest ABI breakage), and has no vmstate (thus no immediate
migration breakage). Breakage occurs only if the user unwisely
enables flash by setting rom_only to zero. Patch review FAIL #1.
Why "maybe use flash"? Flash didn't (and still doesn't) work with
KVM. Therefore, rom_only=0 really means "use flash, except when KVM
is enabled, use ROM". This is a Bad Idea, because it makes enabling/
disabling KVM guest-visible. Patch review FAIL #2.
Aside: it also precludes migrating between KVM on and off, but that's
not possible for other reasons anyway.
Fix as follows:
1. Change the meaning of rom_only=0 to mean "use flash, no ifs, buts,
or maybes" for pc-i440fx-1.5 and pc-q35-1.5. Don't change anything
for older machines (to remain bug-compatible).
2. Change the default value from 0 to 1 for these machines.
Necessary, because 0 doesn't work with KVM. Once it does, we can flip
the default back to 0.
3. Don't revert the retroactive addition of device "pc-sysfw" to older
machine types. Seems not worth the trouble.
4. Add a TODO comment asking for device "pc-sysfw" to be dropped once
flash works with KVM.
Net effect is that you get a BIOS ROM again even when KVM is disabled,
just like for machines predating the introduction of flash.
To get flash instead, use "--global pc-sysfw.rom_only=0".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1365780303-26398-4-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Just to make the next commit easier to review.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1365780303-26398-3-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Just to make the commit after next easier to review.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1365780303-26398-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Functions defined in acpi/ should be declared in
acpi.h
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Many of these should be cleaned up with proper qdev-/QOM-ification.
Right now there are many catch-all headers in include/hw/ARCH depending
on cpu.h, and this makes it necessary to compile these files per-target.
However, fixing this does not belong in these patches.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Move it to qom/cpu.h to avoid issues with include order.
Change pc_acpi_smi_interrupt() opaque to X86CPU.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
* bonzini/hw-dirs:
sh: move files referencing CPU to hw/sh4/
ppc: move more files to hw/ppc
ppc: move files referencing CPU to hw/ppc/
m68k: move files referencing CPU to hw/m68k/
i386: move files referencing CPU to hw/i386/
arm: move files referencing CPU to hw/arm/
hw: move boards and other isolated files to hw/ARCH
ppc: express FDT dependency of pSeries and e500 boards via default-configs/
build: always link device_tree.o into emulators if libfdt available
hw: include hw header files with full paths
ppc: do not use ../ in include files
vt82c686: vt82c686 is not a PCI host bridge
virtio-9p: remove PCI dependencies from hw/9pfs/
virtio-9p: use CONFIG_VIRTFS, not CONFIG_LINUX
hw: move device-hotplug.o to toplevel, compile it once
hw: move qdev-monitor.o to toplevel directory
hw: move fifo.[ch] to libqemuutil
hw: move char backends to backends/
Conflicts:
backends/baum.c
backends/msmouse.c
hw/a15mpcore.c
hw/arm/Makefile.objs
hw/arm/pic_cpu.c
hw/dataplane/event-poll.c
hw/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
include/char/baum.h
include/char/msmouse.h
qemu-char.c
vl.c
Resolve conflicts caused by header movements.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Markus Armbruster