Re: [Qemu-devel] [seabios PATCH for qemu 2.10 0/2] seabios: build ACPI 1.0-compatible ACPI tables

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:42:33AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Old operating systems would like to have a rev1 (ACPI 1.0) FADT, but
> new operating systems would like to have rev3 (ACPI 2.0).
> Since old operating systems do not know about XSDTs, the
> solution is to point the RSDT to a v1 FADT and the XSDT to a
> rev3 FADT.

So I think for 2.10 Igor's patch is much smaller and only
touches QEMU, I'm inclined to merge just that one.
Let's discuss this after 2.10 is out.

> 
> Paolo Bonzini (2):
>   seabios: build RSDT from XSDT
>   seabios: create rev1 FADT in compatibility RSDT
> 
>  src/fw/paravirt.c | 68 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  src/std/acpi.h    | 11 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
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> 2.13.3