Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/11] hw/acpi: Add ACPI Generic Event Device Support

[Igor Mammedov]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:42:16 +0000
Shameer Kolothum <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Samuel Ortiz <address@hidden>
> 
> The ACPI Generic Event Device (GED) is a hardware-reduced specific
> device that handles all platform events, including the hotplug ones.
> This patch generate the AML code that defines GEDs.
> Platforms need to specify their own GedEvent array to describe what kind
> of events they want to support through GED. The build_ged_aml routine
> takes a GedEvent array that maps a specific GED event to an IRQ number.
> Then we use that array to build both the _CRS and the _EVT section
> of the GED device.

I'd this a part of "virtual ACPI device"

> This is in preparation for making use of GED for ARM/virt
> platform and for now supports only memory hotplug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <address@hidden>
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