Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] hw/i386: Add an Intel MPTable generator

[Sergio Lopez]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 04:47:03PM +0200, Sergio Lopez wrote:
>> Add a helper function (mptable_generate) for generating an Intel
>> MPTable according to version 1.4 of the specification.
>> 
>> This is needed for the microvm machine type implementation.
>
> Firmware should do this IMHO (qboot or seabios).

Microvm does a number of things that are typically done by the firmware,
as a way to reduce boot time. I'm not opposed to support qboot, as long
it's optional. Otherwise microvm will break one of its three leitmotif.

Sergio.

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