Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] hw/arm: Add Arm Enterprise machine type

[Peter Maydell]

On 3 August 2018 at 10:21, Hongbo Zhang <address@hidden> wrote:
> The 'sbsa' machine won't consume QEMU generated ACPI, so it won't
> touch or add new ACPI tables.
>
> UEFI relies on its ACPI to load OS, but currently it still needs DT
> from QEMU to pass some info, one example is CPU number.
>
> So, the 'sbsa' code implementation should be like this:
> A separate file, no ACPI codes, a little necessary DT codes.
>
> "Necessary DT codes" doesn't include so many peripheral devices nodes,
> so the code overlap with virt won't be so much (contrary to sbsa.c
> with all the DT codes), then no need to separate the common part to a
> third file, and virt.c can be untouched or only a minor change with
> few lines.

Would the real hardware you are trying to be an example
for use DT for this? It seems a bit unlikely to me.

thanks
-- PMM