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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:30:16 +0100
Subject: [RFC] ARM VM System Sepcification
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On Wednesday 26 February 2014, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> Personally I'm all for simplicity so I don't want to push any agenda for
> ACPI in VMs.
> 
> Note that the spec does not mandate the use of ACPI, it just tells you
> how to do it if you wish to.
> 
> But, we can change the spec to require full FDT description of the
> system, unless of course some of the ACPI-in-VM supporters manage to
> convince the rest.

I guess the real question is whether we are interested in running Windows RT
in VM guests. I don't personally expect MS to come out with a port for
this spec, no matter what we do, but some of you may have information I don't.

	Arnd

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM VM System Sepcification
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:30:16 +0100
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On Wednesday 26 February 2014, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> Personally I'm all for simplicity so I don't want to push any agenda for
> ACPI in VMs.
> 
> Note that the spec does not mandate the use of ACPI, it just tells you
> how to do it if you wish to.
> 
> But, we can change the spec to require full FDT description of the
> system, unless of course some of the ACPI-in-VM supporters manage to
> convince the rest.

I guess the real question is whether we are interested in running Windows RT
in VM guests. I don't personally expect MS to come out with a port for
this spec, no matter what we do, but some of you may have information I don't.

	Arnd