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Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/19] ACPI reorganization for har
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/19] ACPI reorganization for hardware-reduced support |
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Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:28:48 +0100 |
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Samuel Ortiz <address@hidden> writes:
> This patch set provides an ACPI code reorganization in preparation for
> adding hardware-reduced support to QEMU.
>
> The changes are coming from the NEMU [1] project where we're defining
> a new x86 machine type: i386/virt. This is an EFI only, ACPI
> hardware-reduced platform and as such we had to implement support
> for the latter.
>
> As a preliminary for adding hardware-reduced support to QEMU, we did
> some ACPI code reorganization with the following goals:
>
> * Share as much as possible of the current ACPI build APIs between
> legacy and hardware-reduced ACPI.
> * Share the ACPI build code across machine types and architectures and
> remove the typical PC machine type dependency.
> Eventually we hope to see arm/virt also re-use much of that code.
>
> The patches are also available in their own git branch [2].
>
> [1] https://github.com/intel/nemu
> [2] https://github.com/intel/nemu/tree/topic/upstream/acpi
>
> v1 -> v2:
> * Drop the hardware-reduced implementation for now. Our next patch set
> will add hardware-reduced and convert arm/virt to it.
> * Implement the ACPI build methods as a QOM Interface Class and convert
> the PC machine type to it.
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