On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 02:40:58PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 01:44:45PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 8/11/25 13:31, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > > This provides /usr/bin/iasl, a compiler for ACPI definitions, and is > > > used by at least: xen, ed2, seabios (and hence qemu etc). I've CC'd > > > the relevant maintainers to see if we have capacity to take this in > > > the virtualization team. > > SeaBIOS and QEMU don't really need iasl anymore (QEMU uses as a disassembler > > in its testcases, but that's it). > > Without iasl we just get told that bios-tables-test failed on certain > ACPI tests in QEMU. With iasl we get told the full diff of the ACPI table > failures. Getting such details is useful in automated builds to make it > easier to diagnose what failed/regressed. So it'd be nice if someone is > willing to keep it around
iasl is a build dependency for edk2. So, given that nobody stepped up while I was on my summer vacation I'll go raise my hand and take it. take care, Gerd -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
