Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] acpi: load and link tables from /etc/acpi/

[Laszlo Ersek]

Not sure how much it counts, but I personally can agree with you on this
direction :)

One note below:

> @@ -603,8 +604,72 @@ acpi_setup(void)
>      if (! CONFIG_ACPI)
>          return;
>  
> +    int acpi_generate = 1;
> +
>      dprintf(3, "init ACPI tables\n");
>  
> +    struct romfile_s *file = NULL;
> +    for (;;) {
> +        file = romfile_findprefix("/etc/acpi/", file);
> +        if (!file)
> +            break;
> +
> +        /*
> +         * Disable ACPI table generation. All ACPI tables must come from
> +         * etc/acpi/ romfile entries.
> +         */
> +        acpi_generate = 0;
> +

[...]

> +    }
> +
> +    linker_link("/etc/linker-script");
> +
> +    if (!acpi_generate) {
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    dprintf(3, "generate ACPI tables\n");
> +
>      // This code is hardcoded for PIIX4 Power Management device.
>      struct pci_device *pci = pci_find_init_device(acpi_find_tbl, NULL);
>      if (!pci)

Are you deliberately calling linker_link() independently from
"acpi_generate"? My hunch is that linker_link() only makes sense if
acpi_generate == 0 (ie. qemu has passed down at least one table to
repoint some pointer to), but I may be missing a use case.

Thanks
Laszlo