Hi,
> 3. fw_cfg
> - Add new fw_cfg item (opt/ovmf/AcceptAllMemory) to indicate how to handle the unaccepted memory.
> > True - accept all the memory
> > False - don't accept the memory
> > Default - It allows the firmware to choose depending on various factors.
> - Glaze has submit the patch https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220620223300.1555849-1-dionnaglaze@google.com/
> Proposal 3) only works for QEMU because of fw_cfg.
Well, while that is true for the patch at hand it doesn't have to be
that way. We can also simply store the config option in a EFI variable.
Wire up a HII configuration so it can be changed via firmware setup.
Allow setting the EFI variable from fw_cfg, so qemu users can set that
on the qemu command line too (and possibly have similar mechanisms for
other hypervisors, hello cloudhv).
> I wonder if lazy-accept feature can be split into 2 stages.
> 1. In first stage there is a config option to indicate if lazy-accept is enabled or not.
> 2. In the second stage the automatic negotiation is introduced so that lazy-accept is enabled or not by the negotiation result.
Absolutely. That is one of the reasons why I suggested to have a
true/false/default config option instead of just true/false.
When the first stage is implemented "default" behavior would be fixed
(either hard-coded or a compile-time option).
When the second stage is implemented "default" behavior would be
dynamic, depending on the negotiation result.
take care,
Gerd