RE: [PATCH 2/3 v6] ACPI: allow longer device IDs

Michael Kelley (LINUX)
2022-03-24T19:24:48Z

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 3:07 PM
>
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 20:59, Michael Kelley (LINUX)
> <mikelley@microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > The Hyper-V guys pass along their thanks for your suggestion. They have
> > created an internal build with the change and verified that it preserves
> > compatibility with Windows guests. I've tested with Linux guests and
> > Jason's new driver (modified to look for "VMGENCTR"), and it all looks good.
> > It will take a little while to wend its way through the Windows/Hyper-V
> > release system, but they are planning to take the change.
> >
>
> Thanks for reporting back.
>
> Will the spec be updated accordingly?

The Hyper-V team is looking into updating the spec. The document
is 10 years old, so they need to find the original source for the PDF.

Michael