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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ARM: Virt: Don't generate RTC ACPI device wh


From: Shannon Zhao
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ARM: Virt: Don't generate RTC ACPI device when using UEFI
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:37:25 +0800
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On 2016/1/15 22:34, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 13 January 2016 at 16:26, Laszlo Ersek<address@hidden>  wrote:
>On 01/13/16 17:16, Andrew Jones wrote:
>>On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:54:17PM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>>>When booting the VM with UEFI, UEFI takes ownership of the RTC hardware.
>>>While UEFI can use libfdt to disable the RTC device node in the DTB that
>>>it passes to the OS, it cannot modify AML. Therefore, we won't generate
>>>the RTC ACPI device at all when using UEFI.
>>
>>I think a condensed comment similar to this commit message would be nice
>>in build_dsdt, or somewhere. We have a policy for mach-virt of generating
>>ACPI for everything we generate DT. It'd be good if we documented all the
>>divergences in order to avoid confusion. [...]
>
>Good idea!
I'm happy with the code in this patch, so you can add my
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell<address@hidden>

Sorry, missed this. I've sent the v3.

Shannon, I'm assuming you're planning a v3 with the comment that
Andrew and Laszlo suggest.

--
Shannon



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