Create a new -smbios option (x86-only) to allow binary SMBIOS entries
to be passed through to the BIOS or modify the default values of
individual fields of type 0 and 1 entries on the command line.
Binary SMBIOS entries can be generated as follows:
dmidecode -t 1 -u | grep $'^\t\t[^"]' | xargs -n1 | \
perl -lne 'printf "%c", hex($_)' > smbios_type_1.bin
These can then be passed to the BIOS using this switch:
-smbios file=smbios_type_1.bin
Command line generation supports the following syntax:
-smbios type=0[,vendor=str][,version=str][,date=str][,release=%d.%d]
-smbios type=1[,manufacturer=str][,product=str][,version=str][,serial=str]
[,uuid=$(uuidgen)][,sku=str][,family=str]
For instance, to add a serial number to the type 1 table:
-smbios type=1,serial=0123456789
Interface is extensible to support more fields/tables as needed.
aliguori: remove texi formatting from help output
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This is needed to dynamically add SLIC tables with Windows
activation keys.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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A number of patches were merged since we last pulled.
Thanks to Marcelo Tosatti for rebasing the existing patches and testing.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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See each patch for individual Signed-off-by's/commit logs
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They have applied all of our patches and they have an additional HPET fix.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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A number of our patches have been merged so we can now remove them from our
queue.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Apparently, guests are very tolerant of corrupt ACPI tables because our
tables have been badly corrupted for some time now. A version of
Knoppix using a 2.6.11 kernel refused to boot and it turned out it was
due to the interrupt override table introduced by the recent HPET
commit.
This patch updates the BIOS and introduces a patch to pack the ACPI
tables. If you have a guest that used to work and is broken by the this
commit, let me know. We have some weird hacks in the tables that I
suspect are work arounds for this bug.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This patch adds HPET emulation. It can be disabled with -disable-hpet. An hpet
provides a more finely granular clocksource than otherwise available on PC.
This means that latency-dependent applications (e.g. multimedia) will generally
be smoother when using the HPET.
Signed-off-by: Beth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Update the PC BIOS to the latest version, split out the patches into
patch series, and update the README to point to the new location of the
Bochs BIOS source tree.
Also update the gitignore to allow the patch queue directory to be used.
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