On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:24:31PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Juan is not available now, and Anthony asked for > agenda to be sent early. > So here comes: > > Agenda for the meeting Tue, June 11: > > - Generating acpi tables, redux Not so much notes as a quick summary of the call: There are the following reasons to generate ACPI tables in QEMU: - sharing code with e.g. ovmf Anthony thinks this is not a valid argument - so we can make tables more dynamic and move away from iasl Anthony thinks this is not a valid reason too, since qemu and seabios have access to same info MST noted several info not accessible to bios. Anthony said they can be added, e.g. by exposing QOM to the bios. - even though most tables are static, hardcoded they are likely to change over time Anthony sees this as justified To summarize, there's a concensus now that generating ACPI tables in QEMU is a good idea. Two issues that need to be addressed: - original patches break cross-version migration. Need to fix that. - Anthony requested that patchset is merged together with some new feature. I'm not sure the reasoning is clear: current a version intentionally generates tables that are bug for bug compatible with seabios, to simplify testing. It seems clear we have users for this such as hotplug of devices behind pci bridges, so why keep the infrastructure out of tree? Looking for something additional, smaller as the hotplug patch is a bit big, so might delay merging. Going forward - would we want to move smbios as well? Everyone seems to think it's a good idea. -- MST -- 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
