[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Get system state configuration from QEMU and patch DSDT with it.

[Kevin O'Connor]

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