On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 12:18:06PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > On 6/2/23 11:54, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 10:22:15AM +0530, Sunil V L wrote: > > > + object_class_property_add(oc, "acpi", "OnOffAuto", > > > + virt_get_acpi, virt_set_acpi, > > > + NULL, NULL); > > > + object_class_property_set_description(oc, "acpi", > > > + "Enable ACPI"); > > > > The way this works on other architectures (x86_64, aarch64) is that > > you get ACPI by default and can use -no-acpi to disable it if > > desired. Can we have the same on RISC-V, for consistency? > > -no-acpi rather seems a x86-specific hack for the ISA PC machine, and > has a high maintenance cost / burden.
Can you elaborate on this? RISCV doesn't need '-no-acpi' specifically. If -no-acpi is problematic for some reason, then something like '-machine virt,acpi=off' would be sufficient for switching to DT too. Thanks, drew