[SeaBIOS] [PATCHv3 4/4] acpi: automatically generated ssdt proc

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

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?

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MST