Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ARM: Virt: Don't generate RTC ACPI device when using UEFI

[Andrew Jones]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:54:17PM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> When booting the VM with UEFI, UEFI takes ownership of the RTC hardware.
> While UEFI can use libfdt to disable the RTC device node in the DTB that
> it passes to the OS, it cannot modify AML. Therefore, we won't generate
> the RTC ACPI device at all when using UEFI.

I think a condensed comment similar to this commit message would be nice
in build_dsdt, or somewhere. We have a policy for mach-virt of generating
ACPI for everything we generate DT. It'd be good if we documented all the
divergences in order to avoid confusion. I won't insist though.

Thanks,
drew