On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:29:53PM +0200, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote: > It's not possible to use exactly the same code for parsing. The access methods can be separate and don't affect the parsing logic. > The access methods are different (need to deal with port-IO for > built-in description on PCI, for example) and more importantly, the > structure is different as well. The ACPI table needs nodes for > virtio-iommu while the built-in description is contained in the > virtio-iommu itself. So the endpoint nodes point to virtio-iommu node > on ACPI, while they don't need a pointer on the built-in desc. I kept > as much as possible common in structures and implementation, but in > the end we still need about 200 unique lines on each side. Will it hurt the non-ACPI version to have the not-needed pointers anyway to keep the parsers the same? Joerg
