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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