On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 3:56 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:17:30PM +0200, Liav Albani wrote: > > This can allow the guest OS to determine more easily if i8042 controller > > is present in the system or not, so it doesn't need to do probing of the > > controller, but just initialize it immediately, before enumerating the > > ACPI AML namespace. > > > > To allow "flexible" indication, I don't hardcode the bit at location 1 > > as on in the IA-PC boot flags, but try to search for i8042 on the ISA > > bus to verify it exists in the system. > > > > Why this is useful you might ask - this patch allows the guest OS to > > probe and use the i8042 controller without decoding the ACPI AML blob > > at all. For example, as a developer of the SerenityOS kernel, I might > > want to allow people to not try to decode the ACPI AML namespace (for > > now, we still don't support ACPI AML as it's a work in progress), but > > still to not probe for the i8042 but just use it after looking in the > > IA-PC boot flags in the ACPI FADT table. > > OK still waiting for v5.
Since the time is tight, I could quickly make the changes in patch 2 and send it over. I believe 8th is the last date for new changes.
