Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: drop _ADR entry from SPCR

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 August 2015 at 14:25, Andrew Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 01:55:14PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 02:28:03PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
>> > In the least I wouldn't want to get burned twice, so I'd prefer to
>> > see the SPCR code actually get into Linux first this time. That
>> > would also allow us to point at something when we start breaking
>> > guests.
>>
>> So, if that's the way it has to be, that's the way it has to be.
>> I'd just prefer not having different pieces of firmware validating
>> different software behaviours for the same thing.
>
> Yeah, now it's messy. I'm actually OK with this QEMU patch, with regard
> to the downstream stuff that I'm involved with, but other downstreams
> may not be so flexible... We need Peter to chime in with his opinion,
> CCed.

Could somebody who understands ACPI and the ramifications
here let me know if I should apply this patch, please?
(since we're now post-2.4)

thanks
-- PMM