On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 07:25:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 05/20/2012 07:16 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
Here we in agreement, and I was against patching till it was unavoidable, but than pci hotplug started using it, and afterwards processor definitions, so no point in avoiding it now by using inferior methods.
I agree as well.
What's the background to needing to have dynamic S3/S4 definitions? (Why will some qemu instances be able to sleep and not others?)
Backwards compatibility. qemu has a -M machine-type option that expose an old qemu's guest-visible attributes. If an old qemu didn't support S3, then -M old shouldn't either.
The DSDT has claimed S3, S4, and S5 support since SeaBIOS has supported ACPI. What's the background to the requirement to stop claiming support for it?
-Kevin