Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: drop _ADR entry from SPCR

[Shannon Zhao]

On 2015/8/20 8:24, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 August 2015 at 14:25, Andrew Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 01:55:14PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 02:28:03PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
>>>> In the least I wouldn't want to get burned twice, so I'd prefer to
>>>> see the SPCR code actually get into Linux first this time. That
>>>> would also allow us to point at something when we start breaking
>>>> guests.
>>>
>>> So, if that's the way it has to be, that's the way it has to be.
>>> I'd just prefer not having different pieces of firmware validating
>>> different software behaviours for the same thing.
>>
>> Yeah, now it's messy. I'm actually OK with this QEMU patch, with regard
>> to the downstream stuff that I'm involved with, but other downstreams
>> may not be so flexible... We need Peter to chime in with his opinion,
>> CCed.
> 
> Could somebody who understands ACPI and the ramifications
> here let me know if I should apply this patch, please?
> (since we're now post-2.4)
> 

I think we should hold back this patch until the kernel patch goes to
upstream kernel. And without this patch I think it doesn't break anything.

Thanks,
-- 
Shannon