[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/4] acpi: fix up EJ0 in DSDT

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Mon Sep 26 06:40:18 CEST 2011


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:09:49AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:35:13AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > The code to generate basic SSDT code isn't that difficult (see
> > build_ssdt and src/ssdt-proc.dsl).  Is there a compelling reason to
> > patch the DSDT versus just generating the necessary blocks in an SSDT?
> 
> I don't really care whether the code is in DSDT or SSDT,
> IMO there isn't much difference between build_ssdt and patching:
> main reason is build_ssdt uses offsets hardcoded to a specific binary
> (ssdt_proc and SD_OFFSET_* ) while I used
> a script to extract offsets.

Yes - your script to extract the offsets is nice.

> I think we should avoid relying on copy-pasted binary 
> because I see the related ASL code changing in the near future
> (with multifunction and bridge support among others).

Can you expand on this?  Would multi-function and bridge support make
patching easier than dynamic SSDT generation?

I'm a little leary of patching the DSDT - doubly so when the DSDT is
creating dummy devices that are then dynamically patched out.  (For
example, even with your patch series there are still two devices
defined with _ADR 1.)  It seems more straight-forward to just create
the devices that are needed.

-Kevin



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