Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/19] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/15/2016 12:05 PM, Jan Beulich wrote

>> Maybe even without changes to mk_dsdt.c
> But isn't that the critical part? 

Not necessarily since we'd use --gpl option only for
dsdt_anycpu_qemu_xen, dsdt_anycpu and dsdt_15cpu and these files are not
used by the non-GPL caller, which is libxl (it only wants dsdt_pvh).

Of course, this is what we have currently.

> And - what functionality do we lose
> without that code? There's no point in generating something that's
> of no practical use.

We don't lose any functionality (again, currently). In fact, this
indirectly prevents us from generating unnecessary files listed above.

> And then there's the question of whether excluding things from the
> build, but having them present in the sources actually helps.

The main reason for this whole relicensing debacle is to prevent non-GPL
binaries from linking against GPL objects, and this patch allows us to
do that. Yes, there will be be two non-LGPL files (dsdt.asl amd
mk_dsdt.c, which I will revert back to GPL) in an otherwise LGPL
directory but that's an in-convenience and not a license violation.



-boris




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