Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] acpi: load and link tables from /etc/acpi/

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:41:01PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Not sure how much it counts, but I personally can agree with you on this
> direction :)
> 
> One note below:
> 
> > @@ -603,8 +604,72 @@ acpi_setup(void)
> >      if (! CONFIG_ACPI)
> >          return;
> >  
> > +    int acpi_generate = 1;
> > +
> >      dprintf(3, "init ACPI tables\n");
> >  
> > +    struct romfile_s *file = NULL;
> > +    for (;;) {
> > +        file = romfile_findprefix("/etc/acpi/", file);
> > +        if (!file)
> > +            break;
> > +
> > +        /*
> > +         * Disable ACPI table generation. All ACPI tables must come from
> > +         * etc/acpi/ romfile entries.
> > +         */
> > +        acpi_generate = 0;
> > +
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    linker_link("/etc/linker-script");
> > +
> > +    if (!acpi_generate) {
> > +        return;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    dprintf(3, "generate ACPI tables\n");
> > +
> >      // This code is hardcoded for PIIX4 Power Management device.
> >      struct pci_device *pci = pci_find_init_device(acpi_find_tbl, NULL);
> >      if (!pci)
> 
> Are you deliberately calling linker_link() independently from
> "acpi_generate"? My hunch is that linker_link() only makes sense if
> acpi_generate == 0 (ie. qemu has passed down at least one table to
> repoint some pointer to), but I may be missing a use case.
> 
> Thanks
> Laszlo

In theory linker code is unrelated to acpi, and host
can the linker to patch any romfile.
I could add if (!acpi_generate) but it just seems
like adding code to remove something potentially useful.

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MST