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Re: [PATCH 0/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machi
From: |
Michael S. Tsirkin |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 0/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:21:25 -0400 |
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 04:09:34PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> The flash device is exclusively for the host-controlled firmware, so
> we should not expose it to the OS. Exposing it risks the OS messing
> with it, which could break firmware runtime services and surprise the
> OS when all its changes disappear after reboot.
>
> This change was suggested by Ard and Laszlo.
>
> Patch 3/4 is the meat. The other patches deal with updating qtest.
acpi things:
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Thanks,
> drew
>
> Andrew Jones (4):
> tests/acpi: remove stale allowed tables
> tests/acpi: virt: allow DSDT acpi table changes
> hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types
> tests/acpi: virt: update golden masters for DSDT
>
> hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c | 5 ++++-
> hw/arm/virt.c | 3 +++
> include/hw/arm/virt.h | 1 +
> tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT | Bin 5307 -> 5205 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT.memhp | Bin 6668 -> 6566 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT.numamem | Bin 5307 -> 5205 bytes
> tests/qtest/bios-tables-test-allowed-diff.h | 18 ------------------
> 7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.4