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Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing

From Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing
Date 2015-07-28 23:20 +0200
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On 28 July 2015 at 21:28, G Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 28 July 2015 at 21:12, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Mmm. I'm not terribly happy about stuff being in QEMU before the
>> ACPI spec for it has been finalised. We should not be picking
>> stuff randomly on the fly...
>>
>> If we want to fix the ACPI IDs QEMU is using for 2.4 then we
>> really need to do that now (ie within the next day or two).
>>
> It is upto the owner of the QEMU prefix to allocate numbers. This is
> not an issue for ACPI spec at all.

I mean "the specification for how this device should be advertised
in an ACPI table". I don't care whether that's an official ACPI
consortium thing or something less official. The table is
constructed by QEMU and read by the kernel (and possibly
also by UEFI?), so everybody needs to agree on what the
string is...

thanks
-- PMM
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[PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org> - 2015-07-28 11:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-07-28 12:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> - 2015-07-28 12:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-07-28 12:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing G Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org> - 2015-07-28 12:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> - 2015-07-28 22:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing G Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org> - 2015-07-28 22:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> - 2015-07-28 23:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org> - 2015-07-29 04:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: add ACPI probing "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-07-29 12:10 +0200

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