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| author | Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com> | 2013-02-15 13:32:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com> | 2013-02-15 13:32:16 +0000 |
| commit | dcd468855afed1fd205278beb60a4e3df21b3289 (patch) | |
| tree | 715db917fd8d01be83f1761d63ae18fef894733a /docs | |
| parent | a234675150adfca751ed36c0ef68712160ff1ab9 (diff) | |
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libxl: HVM firmware passthrough support
This patch introduces support for two new parameters in libxl:
smbios_firmware=<path_to_smbios_structures_file>
acpi_firmware=<path_to_acpi_tables_file>
The changes are primarily in the domain building code where the firmware files
are read and passed to libxc for loading into the new guest. After the domain
building call to libxc, the addresses for the loaded blobs are returned and
written to xenstore.
LIBXL_HAVE_FIRMWARE_PASSTHROUGH is defined in libxl.h to allow users to
determine if the feature is present.
This patch also updates the xl.cfg man page with descriptions of the two new
parameters for firmware passthrough.
Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 index caba1628f5..48e05c4a7c 100644 --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 @@ -829,6 +829,25 @@ libxl: 'host,tm=0,sse3=0' More info about the CPUID instruction can be found in the processor manuals, and in Wikipedia: L<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID> +=item B<acpi_firmware="STRING"> + +Specify a path to a file that contains extra ACPI firmware tables to pass in to +a guest. The file can contain several tables in their binary AML form +concatenated together. Each table self describes its length so no additional +information is needed. These tables will be added to the ACPI table set in the +guest. Note that existing tables cannot be overridden by this feature. For +example this cannot be used to override tables like DSDT, FADT, etc. + +=item B<smbios_firmware="STRING"> + +Specify a path to a file that contains extra SMBIOS firmware structures to pass +in to a guest. The file can contain a set DMTF predefined structures which will +override the internal defaults. Not all predefined structures can be overridden, +only the following types: 0, 1, 2, 3, 11, 22, 39. The file can also contain any +number of vendor defined SMBIOS structures (type 128 - 255). Since SMBIOS +structures do not present their overall size, each entry in the file must be +preceded by a 32b integer indicating the size of the next structure. + =back =head3 Guest Virtual Time Controls |