Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 7/7] hw/i386: build ACPI MADT (APIC) for fw_cfg clients

[Eric Blake]

On 04/15/2013 02:47 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> This patch reuses some code from SeaBIOS, which was originally under
> LGPLv2 and then relicensed to GPLv3 or LGPLv3, in QEMU under GPLv2+. This
> relicensing has been acked by all contributors that had contributed to the
> code since the v2->v3 relicense. ACKs approving the v2+ relicensing are
> listed below. The list might include ACKs from people not holding
> copyright on any parts of the reused code, but it's better to err on the
> side of caution and include them.
> 
...

Thanks for tracking that down.

> 
> Changes since v1, based on prototype code from Michael Tsirkin:
> - "hw/i386/pc.c" is too big, create new file "hw/i386/acpi.c" with
>   i386-specific ACPI table stuff,
> - separate preparation of individual tables from their installation as
>   fw_cfg files,
> - install these fw_cfg files inside pc_memory_init(), which is shared by
>   piix4/q35,
> - add the above licensing-related block to the commit message.

This paragraph of information usually appears...

> 
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>
> ---

...here, so someone doing 'git am' on the message doesn't include
information that is essential to the review process, but worthless to
the ultimate git history (readers of 'git log' don't care how many
iterations a patch took before it was ready to be included).

>  hw/i386/acpi.h        |    9 +++
>  hw/i386/acpi.c        |  159 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/i386/pc.c          |   16 +++++
>  hw/i386/Makefile.objs |    1 +
>  4 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi.h
>  create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi.c

Sorry - I just did a superficial review of the commit message, but this
is in code that I'm not familiar enough with to do any sort of formal
review.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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