Re: ACPI table modifications

[Corey Minyard]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 09:22:19PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Gautam,
> 
> On 10/11/19 8:47 PM, Gautam Bhat wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to add some I2C based temperature sensors to the -M Q35 machine.
> > I want to update the ACPI tables to add this device information. How can
> > I go about  doing this?

FYI, I just added the SMB ACPI entry to q35, change:

  ebe15582cafeb "pc: Add an SMB0 ACPI device to q35"

I did this for IPMI, but it should be easy to add your own entries
the same way.

-corey

> 
> QEMU provides a MAINTAINERS file with persons to contact sorted by topics (I
> Cc'ed in this reply).
> 
> This is the relevant ACPI section, it also lists the files you might look
> at:
> 
> ACPI/SMBIOS
> M: Michael S. Tsirkin
> M: Igor Mammedov
> S: Supported
> F: include/hw/acpi/*
> F: include/hw/firmware/smbios.h
> F: hw/mem/*
> F: hw/acpi/*
> F: hw/smbios/*
> F: hw/i386/acpi-build.[hc]
> F: hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> F: tests/bios-tables-test.c
> F: tests/acpi-utils.[hc]
> F: tests/data/acpi/
> 
> Eventually the bios-tables-test.c file is a good starting point.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
>