Hi everyone,

I have some question about the: acpi_drv and platform_drv.

In short: Is acpi_drv and platform_drv are only supporting hardware boards with PCIe ?

In detail: I do following: make KERNEL=nova run/lighttpd

And start the var/run/lighttpd.iso with qemu-system-x86_64 (without -machine q35 parameter!) qemu-system-x86_64 -no-kvm -display sdl -cpu core2duo -nographic -netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp::5555-:80,hostfwd=tcp::5556-:443 -net nic,model=e1000,netdev=net0 -serial mon:stdio -m 512 -cdrom var/run/lighttpd.iso

It fails with: .... [init -> nic_drv -> acpi_drv] SMBIOS table (entry point: 0x1758f0 structures: 0xf5910) [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] Error: ACPI report parsing error. [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] Error: Uncaught exception of type 'int' [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] Warning: abort called - thread: ep

I extendend the "error output" (maybe you would like to have this? I can create a PR?)

And I got following: ... [init -> nic_drv -> acpi_drv] Freeing up memory of elements - 3104 bytes [init -> nic_drv -> acpi_drv] SMBIOS table (entry point: 0x1758f0 structures: 0xf5910) [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] Error: ACPI report parsing error. Exception type int: 2 [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] Error: ACPI ROM: <acpi> [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] <root_bridge bdf="0x0"/> [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] <irq_override irq="11" gsi="11" flags="0xd"/> [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] <irq_override irq="10" gsi="10" flags="0xd"/> [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] <irq_override irq="9" gsi="9" flags="0xd"/> [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] <irq_override irq="5" gsi="5" flags="0xd"/> [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] <irq_override irq="0" gsi="2" flags="0x0"/> [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] </acpi> [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] Error: Uncaught exception of type 'int' [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] Warning: abort called - thread: ep

I figured out that following is missing: [init -> nic_drv -> platform_drv] <bdf start="0" count="65536" base="0xb0000000"/>

The acpi_drv get this from [init -> nic_drv -> acpi_drv] MCFG BASE 0xb0000000 seg 0x0 bus 0x0-0xff MCFG -> PCI Express memory mapped configuration space base address Description Table

I also figured out that the qemu parameter -machine q35 is using as chipset a ICH9 and this has PCIe

* Can I somehow "manuel" configure the system on 440FX based hardware ? * Is there a reason why platform_drv is not supporting older hardware ?

Thanks Jörg