Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: switch to a dummy SSDT

2018-01-10 Thread Stefan Berger
On 01/10/2018 06:29 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:58:11 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: We prefer not changing table sizes depending on parameters, that's why we create a dummy table rather than just drop t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: switch to a dummy SSDT

2018-01-10 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 01:31:09PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:55:37 +0200 > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:41:52PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:29:09 +0200 > > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > > > > > On We

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: switch to a dummy SSDT

2018-01-10 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:55:37 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:41:52PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:29:09 +0200 > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 J

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: switch to a dummy SSDT

2018-01-10 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:41:52PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:29:09 +0200 > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:58:11 +0200 > > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > > > > > We prefe

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: switch to a dummy SSDT

2018-01-10 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:29:09 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:58:11 +0200 > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > > > We prefer not changing table sizes depending on parameters, > > > that's why we create

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: switch to a dummy SSDT

2018-01-10 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:58:11 +0200 > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > We prefer not changing table sizes depending on parameters, > > that's why we create a dummy table rather than just drop > > the MCFG table. > > > > However, a t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: switch to a dummy SSDT

2018-01-10 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:58:11 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > We prefer not changing table sizes depending on parameters, > that's why we create a dummy table rather than just drop > the MCFG table. > > However, a table named "QEMU" could be put to a better > use than just a stub, e.g. we coul

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] acpi: switch to a dummy SSDT

2018-01-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
We prefer not changing table sizes depending on parameters, that's why we create a dummy table rather than just drop the MCFG table. However, a table named "QEMU" could be put to a better use than just a stub, e.g. we could use it to pass some QEMU specific info to guests. Replace with an SSDT an