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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEM
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:14:00 +0200 |
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 08:06:17AM -0500, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> > So for all arches which support ACPI, I think this driver
> > should just rely on ACPI.
>
> There was a discussion about that a few versions ago, and IIRC the
> conclusion was not to expect the firmware to contend for fw_cfg access
> after the guest kernel boots:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/5/283
Interesting. Igor wanted to do this again recently ...
I'll think it over and get back to you/list on this.
> (I even had a prototype version doing what you suggested, but per the above
> reference decided to drop it -- which IMHO is for the better, since otherwise
> I'd have had to ifdef between ACPI and non-ACPI versions of the driver --
> see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/4/534 )
I'm not sure I get it - won't you only ifdef the accessor function?
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2016/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device,
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/02/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2016/02/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2016/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2016/02/23