[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/19] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:21:39AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 09/07/2016 02:59 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > The goal here is to build ACPI tables for PVHv2/HVMlite guests while > > reusing existing > > hvmloader's ACPI builder code. The builder is provided as a library in > > tools/libacpi. > > > > This is version 3 of the series, see individual patches for changes. It can > > be fetched from git://oss.oracle.com/git/bostrovs/xen.git:acpi_v3 > > Wei, Ian --- are there any comments from the toolstack perspective? > > > > > The series is probably still gated by lack of an ACK from Lenovo for the > > relicensing patch (included here as patch 1). > > > > So I looked again at commit 801d469ad8b2b88f669326327df03d03200efbfb > (which is the patch from Lenovo) and it only does 2 things (assuming I > parsed ASL correctly): > * Adds _PIC method > * Controls and describes legacy PCI interrupt routing. This > functionality has actually been moved into mk_dsdt.c and so this ASL > code is now generated. > > Neither of these two things is used by libxl so technically we may not > need the ACK from Lenovo. OTOH, we may forget about this restriction in > the future and accidentally include those two later. > This is a risk I would rather not take. As you said, we may forget about the restriction in the future. Wei. > > -boris > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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