Re: [PATCH v2] hw/acpi: Add vmclock device

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 05:48 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 09:49:06AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-07-31 at 17:19 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Perfect. So as and when the header is in its final form in Linux,
> > > > it can be part of the automated import and we'll use that version.
> > > > At that point we can drop the one that's sitting alongside the
> > > > device itself in hw/acpi/.
> > > 
> > > Yes. Maybe add a comment in the temporary header.
> > 
> > I pondered that, but kind of preferred to have it byte-identical.
> > 
> > Admittedly I'm not *planning* to have to change it any more but it's
> > been useful so far that I can just *copy* the file between the Linux
> > and Linux-backport and QEMU repositories.
> 
> ok. note machinery we have is clever, it handles __le and such stuff
> automatically.

Sure. But the *temporary* file in hw/acpi isn't using that machinery;
it's literally just copied.

I can add a comment in the vmclock.c file where we *include* it, noting
that it's sitting here in the same directory for now, but in the
fullness of time it will be imported from Linux.

--- a/hw/acpi/vmclock.c
+++ b/hw/acpi/vmclock.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include "migration/vmstate.h"
 #include "sysemu/reset.h"
 
+/* This will come from Linux headers in the end, but we carry our own for now. 
*/
 #include "vmclock-abi.h"
 
 void vmclock_build_acpi(VmclockState *vms, GArray *table_data,

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