On 26 February 2014 20:05, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> 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: >> > For more information about UEFI and ACPI booting, see [4] and [5]. >> >> What's the point of having ACPI in a virtual machine? You wouldn't >> need to abstract any of the hardware in AML since you already know >> what the virtual hardware is, so I can't see how this would help >> anyone. > > 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... My strong feeling is that AArch64 kernels *may* support ACPI in the future ;). On a more serious note, both FDT and ACPI will be first-class citizens on AArch64 and I have no intention whatsoever of dropping FDT. -- Catalin -- 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
