On 2011-08-29 13:00, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/29/2011 01:25 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> >>> Can't seabios just poke at the hpet itself and see if it exists or not? >>> >> >> Would be hard for the BIOS to guess the locations of the blocks unless >> we define the addresses used by QEMU as something like base + hpet_no * >> block_size in all cases. >> > > Currently we have a fixed address. We could do: > > if available in fw_cfg: > use that (may indicate no hpet) > elif fixed address works: > use that > else > no hpet Currently, we also only have a single HPET block, but that's just because of some QEMU limitations that will vanish sooner or later. Then nothing will prevent multiple "-device hpet,base=XXX". Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
