Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/27] ACPI hardware-reduced support

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 October 2018 at 19:36, Samuel Ortiz <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch set implements support for the ACPI hardware-reduced
> specification.
>
> The changes are coming from the NEMU [1] project where we're defining
> a new x86 machine type: i386/virt. This is an EFI only, ACPI
> hardware-reduced platform and as such we had to implement support
> for the latter.
>
> As a preliminary for adding hardware-reduced support to QEMU, we did
> some ACPI code reorganization with the following goals:
>
> * Share as much as possible of the current ACPI build APIs between
>   legacy and hardware-reduced ACPI.
> * Share the ACPI build code across machine types and architectures and
>   remove the typical PC machine type dependency.
>   Eventually we hope to see arm/virt also re-use much of that code.
>
> The rest of the patchset adds the hardware-reduced support on top of
> this code reorganization. Here again, the implementation is machine
> type, platform and architecture independent.
>
> [1] https://github.com/intel/nemu
>
>
> The following changes since commit b312532fd03413d0e6ae6767ec793a3e30f487b8:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream' into 
> staging (2018-10-19 19:01:07 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   address@hidden:intel/nemu topic/upstream/acpi
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 4133ebe0d638d0a3d583bd89aa2360ef35ba746b:
>
>   hw: acpi: reduced: Add PCI hotplug support (2018-10-22 20:32:23 +0200)

Hi -- I'd appreciate it if you don't send pull-requests for
patch series. They show up in my queue of things to merge directly
into master otherwise. Just send them as a patch-series email with
a cover letter, please.

thanks
-- PMM