Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/19] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:21:39AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 09/07/2016 02:59 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > The goal here is to build ACPI tables for PVHv2/HVMlite guests while 
> > reusing existing
> > hvmloader's ACPI builder code. The builder is provided as a library in 
> > tools/libacpi.
> >
> > This is version 3 of the series, see individual patches for changes. It can
> > be fetched from git://oss.oracle.com/git/bostrovs/xen.git:acpi_v3
> 
> Wei, Ian --- are there any comments from the toolstack perspective?
> 
> >
> > The series is probably still gated by lack of an ACK from Lenovo for the
> > relicensing patch (included here as patch 1).
> >
> 
> So I looked again at commit 801d469ad8b2b88f669326327df03d03200efbfb
> (which is the patch from Lenovo) and it only does 2 things (assuming I
> parsed ASL correctly):
> * Adds _PIC method
> * Controls and describes legacy PCI interrupt routing. This
> functionality has actually been moved into mk_dsdt.c and so this ASL
> code is now generated.
> 
> Neither of these two things is used by libxl so technically we may not
> need the ACK from Lenovo. OTOH, we may forget about this restriction in
> the future and accidentally include those two later.
> 

This is a risk I would rather not take. As you said, we may forget about
the restriction in the future.

Wei.

> 
> -boris
> 

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