Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/acpi: Drop acpi_video_flags and use bootsym(video_flags) directly

["Alejandro Vallejo" <alejandro.vallejo@cloud.com>]

On Thu Sep 5, 2024 at 2:06 PM BST, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This removes a level of indirection, as well as removing a somewhat misleading
> name; the variable is really "S3 video quirks".

nit: Would it be beneficial to rename video_flags to s3_video_flags?

>
> More importantly however it makes it very clear that, right now, parsing the
> cmdline and quirks depends on having already placed the trampoline; a
> dependency which is going to be gnarly to untangle.
>
> That said, fixing the quirk is easy.  The Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT has an
> Intel Celeron 300Mhz CPU (Pentium 2 era) from 1998 when MMX was the headline
> feature, sporting 64M of RAM.  Being a 32-bit processor, it hasn't been able
> to run Xen for about a decade now, so drop the quirk entirely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> ---
> CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
> CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> CC: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>
> CC: Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.vallejo@cloud.com>
> ---
>  xen/arch/x86/acpi/power.c       |  2 +-
>  xen/arch/x86/dmi_scan.c         | 12 ------------
>  xen/arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h |  1 -
>  3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)

Always nice to see old hacks disappear.

  Reviewed-by: Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.vallejo@cloud.com>

Cheers,
Alejandro