e820 reserved entries were used before the dynamic entries with fw config files
were intoduced. Please see the following change:
7d67110f2d9a6("pc: add etc/e820 fw_cfg file")
Identical support was introduced into seabios as well with the following commit:
ce39bd4031820 ("Add support for etc/e820 fw_cfg file")
Both the above commits are now quite old. QEMU machines 1.7 and newer no longer
use the reserved entries. Seabios uses fw config files and
dynamic e820 entries by default and only falls back to using reserved entries
when it has to work with old qemu (versions earlier than 1.7). Please see
functions qemu_cfg_e820() and qemu_early_e820(). It is safe to remove legacy
FW_CFG_E820_TABLE and associated code now as QEMU 7.0 has deprecated i440fx
machines 1.7 and older. It would be incredibly rare to run the latest qemu
version with a very old version of seabios that did not support fw config files
for e820.
As far as I could see, edk2/ovfm never supported reserved entries and uses fw
config files from the beginning. So there should be no incompatibilities with
ovfm as well.
CC: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220831045311.33083-1-ani@anisinha.ca>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Type 41 defines the attributes of devices that are onboard. The
original intent was to imply the BIOS had some level of control over
the enablement of the associated devices.
If network devices are present in this table, by default, udev will
name the corresponding interfaces enoX, X being the instance number.
Without such information, udev will fallback to using the PCI ID and
this usually gives ens3 or ens4. This can be a bit annoying as the
name of the network card may depend on the order of options and may
change if a new PCI device is added earlier on the commande line.
Being able to provide SMBIOS type 41 entry ensure the name of the
interface won't change and helps the user guess the right name without
booting a first time.
This can be invoked with:
$QEMU -netdev user,id=internet
-device virtio-net-pci,mac=50:54:00:00:00:42,netdev=internet,id=internet-dev \
-smbios type=41,designation='Onboard LAN',instance=1,kind=ethernet,pcidev=internet-dev
The PCI segment is assumed to be 0. This should hold true for most
cases.
$ dmidecode -t 41
# dmidecode 3.3
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.8 present.
Handle 0x2900, DMI type 41, 11 bytes
Onboard Device
Reference Designation: Onboard LAN
Type: Ethernet
Status: Enabled
Type Instance: 1
Bus Address: 0000:00:09.0
$ ip -brief a
lo UNKNOWN 127.0.0.1/8 ::1/128
eno1 UP 10.0.2.14/24 fec0::5254:ff:fe00:42/64 fe80::5254:ff:fe00:42/64
Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.ch>
Message-Id: <20210401171138.62970-1-vincent@bernat.ch>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
These are needed by microvm too, so move them outside of PC-specific files.
With this patch, microvm.c need not include pc.h anymore.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The microvm machine type uses fw_cfg but lacks SMBIOS and ACPI. Do not
include the files if the symbol is not present in QEMU and remove
dependencies on machine-specific files.
Reviewed-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
