On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 10:50:02PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 02:34:33PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > All these extra levels of indirection is one of the reasons > > hypervisors such as kata try to avoid ACPI. > > Platforms that don't use ACPI need another hardware detection mechanism, > which can also be supported. But the first step here is to enable the > general case, and for x86 platforms this means ACPI. > > Regards, > > Joerg Frankly since a portable way to do it is needed anyway I don't see why we also need ACPI. -- MST
