On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2014 12:05:37 Christoffer Dall wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:55:58PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > On Wednesday 26 February 2014 10:34:54 Christoffer Dall wrote: >> >> The most common response I've been getting so far is that people >> generally want their VMs to look close to the real thing, but not sure >> how valid an argument that is. >> >> Some people feel strongly about this and seem to think that ARMv8 >> kernels will only work with ACPI in the future... > > That is certainly a misconception that has caused a lot of trouble. > We will certainly keep supporting FDT boot in ARMv8 indefinitely, > and I expect that most systems will not use ACPI at all. Furthermore, even enterprise distro kernels will boot DT based kernels assuming the h/w support is mainlined despite statements to the contrary. It is a requirement in mainline kernels that DT and ACPI support to coexist. Distros are not going to go out of their way to undo/break that. And since the boot interface is DT, you can't simply turn off DT. :) Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
