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

Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-03-24T19:45:44Z

On 3/24/22, Michael Kelley (LINUX) <mikelley@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 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.
>