Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.0] tests/acpi-test: do not run iasl on big endian machines

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 19:00 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 March 2014 17:47, Marcel Apfelbaum <address@hidden> wrote:
> > There is an issue with iasl on big endian machines: It
> > cannot disassemble acpi tables taken from little endian
> > machines, so we cannot check the expected tables.
> >
> > Do not run iasl on those machines until this
> > problem is solved by the acpica community.
> 
> Is there an upstream bug report for this? It would be
> nice to have a reference somewhere so we can tell if
> we can remove the check in future...
Hi Peter,
I opened a bug http://bugs.acpica.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082 and
started a discussion 
https://lists.acpica.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/000637.html

Thanks,
Marcel

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>