On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:42:33AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Old operating systems would like to have a rev1 (ACPI 1.0) FADT, but > new operating systems would like to have rev3 (ACPI 2.0). > Since old operating systems do not know about XSDTs, the > solution is to point the RSDT to a v1 FADT and the XSDT to a > rev3 FADT.
So I think for 2.10 Igor's patch is much smaller and only touches QEMU, I'm inclined to merge just that one. Let's discuss this after 2.10 is out. > > Paolo Bonzini (2): > seabios: build RSDT from XSDT > seabios: create rev1 FADT in compatibility RSDT > > src/fw/paravirt.c | 68 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > src/std/acpi.h | 11 +++++++++ > 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > -- > 2.13.3
