Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 0/3] hw/pcie: Multi-root support for Q35

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 11/29/15 13:37, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> On 11/26/2015 07:01 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> Hello Marcel,
>>
> 
> [...] if you have ACPI table dumps from within an i440fx
>> SeaBIOS Linux guest, both from before and after your QEMU patches, and
>> those dumps are identical, then that's good evidence against
>> regressions. (I tend to do such acpidump-based comparisons when messing
>> with ACPI builder code.)
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> OK, there are no functional differences between the SSDT before/after,
> however the optimization made in patch "1/3 hw/acpi: merge pxb adjacent
> memory/IO ranges"
> for pxb-pcies works also for pxb, which is a good thing.
> 
> SSDT before (only PXB differences) :
> -----------------------------------
> 
>  Device (PC0A)
>  {
>    ...
>     Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()  // _CRS: Current Resource Settings
>             {
>                 ...
>                 DWordMemory (ResourceProducer, PosDecode, MinFixed,
> MaxFixed, NonCacheable, ReadWrite,
>                     0x00000000,         // Granularity
>                     0xFE800000,         // Range Minimum
>                     0xFE9FFFFF,         // Range Maximum
>                     0x00000000,         // Translation Offset
>                     0x00200000,         // Length
>                     ,, , AddressRangeMemory, TypeStatic)
>                 DWordMemory (ResourceProducer, PosDecode, MinFixed,
> MaxFixed, NonCacheable, ReadWrite,
>                     0x00000000,         // Granularity
>                     0xFE000000,         // Range Minimum
>                     0xFE7FFFFF,         // Range Maximum
>                     0x00000000,         // Translation Offset
>                     0x00800000,         // Length
>                     ,, , AddressRangeMemory, TypeStatic)
>                 ...
>             })
>  }
> 
> SSDT after:
> ------------
> 
> Device (PC0A)
> {
>   ...
>   Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () // _CRS: Current Resource Settings
>      {
>     ...
>     DWordMemory (ResourceProducer, PosDecode, MinFixed, MaxFixed,
> NonCacheable, ReadWrite,
>                     0x00000000,         // Granularity
>                     0xFE000000,         // Range Minimum
>                     0xFE9FFFFF,         // Range Maximum
>                     0x00000000,         // Translation Offset
>                     0x00A00000,         // Length
>                     ,, , AddressRangeMemory, TypeStatic)
>        ...
>     })
> }
> 
> As it can be seen, the optimization works also for PXB by merging the
> MEM regions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcel
> 
> [...]

Looks good and makes sense, thanks.

Laszlo