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Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH for 2.10] i386: acpi: provide an XSDT inste
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH for 2.10] i386: acpi: provide an XSDT instead of an RSDT |
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Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:24:41 -0400 (EDT) |
> The point is that for PC we really should not keep piling up hacks,
> compatibility is more important.
Non-explosion of the test matrix is just as important.
> > Doing it for PC only would mean switching
> > back from FADT rev3 to rev1, which is worse for guest OS support,
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> It's only OSX AFAIK and IIRC OSX doesn't run on PC anyway.
Sure it does. You can run it on VMware Workstation which emulates
some i440FX-like chipset.
> It's definitely way more code. I'll change my mind if there's
> a guest that needs the new FADT.
Then you can prepare a patch to revert the FADTv3 commit, or do the
work to make it specific to the 2.10 Q35 machine type.
Paolo