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Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ARM: Virt: Don't generate RTC ACP
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Andrew Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ARM: Virt: Don't generate RTC ACPI device when using UEFI |
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Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:16:41 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.23.1 (2014-03-12) |
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. I won't insist though.
Thanks,
drew