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

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Sep 27 02:04:24 CEST 2011


On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:04:13AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:40:18AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If you still have doubts,
> it might make sense to merge just patch 1 -
> acpi: generate and parse mixed asl/aml listing
> - as the first step.
> With the infrastructure in place it will be
> easier to discuss the best way to use it.

I'm okay with your first patch.  However, I wish to tag a release
before committing ACPI changes.  There was a concern raised with
two-pass PCI initialization that I need to follow up on before
tagging.

-Kevin



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