Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/27] ACPI hardware-reduced support

[Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Peter,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 08:01:26PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 October 2018 at 19:36, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > This patch set implements support for the ACPI hardware-reduced
> > specification.
> >
> > The changes are coming from the NEMU [1] project where we're defining
> > a new x86 machine type: i386/virt. This is an EFI only, ACPI
> > hardware-reduced platform and as such we had to implement support
> > for the latter.
> >
> > As a preliminary for adding hardware-reduced support to QEMU, we did
> > some ACPI code reorganization with the following goals:
> >
> > * Share as much as possible of the current ACPI build APIs between
> >   legacy and hardware-reduced ACPI.
> > * Share the ACPI build code across machine types and architectures and
> >   remove the typical PC machine type dependency.
> >   Eventually we hope to see arm/virt also re-use much of that code.
> >
> > The rest of the patchset adds the hardware-reduced support on top of
> > this code reorganization. Here again, the implementation is machine
> > type, platform and architecture independent.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/intel/nemu
> >
> >
> > The following changes since commit b312532fd03413d0e6ae6767ec793a3e30f487b8:
> >
> >   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream' into staging (2018-10-19 19:01:07 +0100)
> >
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> >   git@github.com:intel/nemu topic/upstream/acpi
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 4133ebe0d638d0a3d583bd89aa2360ef35ba746b:
> >
> >   hw: acpi: reduced: Add PCI hotplug support (2018-10-22 20:32:23 +0200)
> 
> Hi -- I'd appreciate it if you don't send pull-requests for
> patch series. They show up in my queue of things to merge directly
> into master otherwise. Just send them as a patch-series email with
> a cover letter, please.
Apologies, I did not know. I'll fix that with the next revision of
this patch set.

Cheers,
Samuel.