Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Xen/ACPI: support sleep state entering on hardware reduced systems

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 01:32:17PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 11.03.13 at 14:21, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Could the commit should also mention what version of the Xen hypervisor
> > supports this new flag and takes action on it?
> 
> Do you really think this is needed? I generally try to stay away
> from doing such, since backports can easily invalidate such
> statements.

Perhaps just mention the title of the patch in the Xen tree?

> 
> > Besides that little nit-pick it looks OK to me. Are there any changes
> > neccessary on the IA64 or ARM side for this?
> 
> Xen on IA64 is dead, so I don't see any need for further action

You are touching generic ACPI code. My question was in terms of
the Linux ACPI IA64 code.

> there. And I don't think ARM has any ACPI enablement so far (on
> the Xen side at least).

And also on the Linux side by just doing a quick grep. Surely
that will change at some point.

> 
> Jan
> 
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