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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [GFW PATCH] HVM DSDT fixes

To: tgingold@xxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [GFW PATCH] HVM DSDT fixes
From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:16:08 +0200
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, xen-ia64-devel <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:43:31PM +0200, tgingold@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Quoting Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hi Tristan,
> 
> > There's still a lot of
> > legacy devices in the DSDT that I'd like to remove (both of the
> > motherboard resource devices, the PIC, DMA0, TMR, RTC, SPKR, and FDC0).
> > Do any of these need to be in the system?
> 
> PIC can be definitely removed.
> TMR (8254) is used by the GFW although itm should be used instead.
> RTC is also used by the GFW.
> SPKR can be removed (I suppose)
> FDC0+DMA0 could be removed or not.

Ok I am wrong for TMR: we don't use it and we can't use it as it is not
emulated.  Same for SPKR.
As we don't emulate a PIC the interrupt routing table can be simplified too.

Don't know about FDC/DMA.

Tristan.

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