On (Mon) 12 Jan 2015 [13:51:00], Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> On 01/12/2015 12:55 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >On (Mon) 12 Jan 2015 [12:26:08], Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> >>On 12/16/2014 01:23 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >>>PIIX4 has disable_s3 and disable_s4 properties to enable or disable PM
> >>>functions. Add such properties to the ICH9 chipset as well for the Q35
> >>>machine type.
> >>>
> >>>S3 / S4 are not guaranteed to always work (needs work in the guest as
> >>>well as QEMU for things to work properly), and disabling advertising of
> >>>these features ensures guests don't go into zombie state if something
> >>>isn't working right.
> >>>
> >>>The defaults are kept the same as in PIIX4: both S3 and S4 are enabled
> >>>by default.
> >>>
> >>>These can be disabled via the cmdline:
> >>>
> >>> ... -global ICH9-LPC,disable_s3=1 -global ICH9-LPC,disable_s4=1
> >> ^^^ ^^^
> >>Should be -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s3=1 -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s4=1
> >
> >Indeed, thanks.
> >
> >>Hi Amit, thanks for answering my prev question.
> >>I have one more:)
> >>
> >>I didn't see how the properties are connected to the ACPI mechanism.
> I finally found it, acpi_get_pm_info in hw/i386/acpi-build.c
> access the object's properties for both pc/q35.
>
> [discussed off-list]
> Last thing that is missing is:
> - in ich9_pm_init we have acpi_pm1_cnt_init(&pm->acpi_regs, &pm->io, 2);
> - while in piix4_pm_initfn we have acpi_pm1_cnt_init(&s->ar, &s->io,
> s->s4_val);
>
> So ich9_pm_init can override the actual object property value, better if we
> update it
> accordingly.
Thanks, v2 sent.
Amit
