[SeaBIOS] [PATCHv3 4/4] acpi: automatically generated ssdt proc
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at redhat.com
Mon Oct 17 20:16:20 CEST 2011
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 10:15:26PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> Sure:
>
> - The DSDT is big and has several cross-functional users. Patching up
> the DSDT for hotplug when the DSDT also has unrelated stuff (eg,
> mouse) seems ugly.
>
> - The PCI hotplug stuff is generating a whole bunch of devices and the
> dynamic code is effectively disabling the unwanted ones. It seems
> nicer to dynamically generate the desired entries instead of bulk
> generating and dynamically blanking.
>
> - The CPU hotplug has similar requirements, but is implemented
> differently - it generates the CPU objects dynamically. It's not
> desirable to bulk generate the CPU objects and "blank" them
> dynamically, because 255 CPU objects would noticeably increase
> SeaBIOS' static size.
>
> - Some time back there were patches floating around to pass the DSDT
> into SeaBIOS via fw_cfg interface. Those patches never made it in
> (I forget why), but the basic functionality seemed sound. Patching
> the DSDT in SeaBIOS would seem to eliminate that possibility.
>
> None of these would be road-blocks. However, they make me want to
> consider other approaches.
So if we had the hotplug stuff in a separate ssdt, and patched that in
the same way my patches do, this seems to address 3 comments otu of 4
(all except the second one).
We'll want to do something else for a bridge, but for now this
seems a sane compromise?
--
MST
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