On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 07:25:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 05/20/2012 07:16 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > > Here we in agreement, and I was against patching till it was unavoidable, > > > but than pci hotplug started using it, and afterwards processor > > > definitions, so no point in avoiding it now by using inferior methods. > > > > I agree as well. > > > > What's the background to needing to have dynamic S3/S4 definitions? > > (Why will some qemu instances be able to sleep and not others?) > > > > Backwards compatibility. qemu has a -M machine-type option that expose > an old qemu's guest-visible attributes. If an old qemu didn't support > S3, then -M old shouldn't either.
The DSDT has claimed S3, S4, and S5 support since SeaBIOS has supported ACPI. What's the background to the requirement to stop claiming support for it? -Kevin