From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:14:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160221151050-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160221130614.GA4511@GLSMBP.INI.CMU.EDU>
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 08:06:17AM -0500, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> > So for all arches which support ACPI, I think this driver
> > should just rely on ACPI.
>
> There was a discussion about that a few versions ago, and IIRC the
> conclusion was not to expect the firmware to contend for fw_cfg access
> after the guest kernel boots:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/5/283
Interesting. Igor wanted to do this again recently ...
I'll think it over and get back to you/list on this.
> (I even had a prototype version doing what you suggested, but per the above
> reference decided to drop it -- which IMHO is for the better, since otherwise
> I'd have had to ifdef between ACPI and non-ACPI versions of the driver --
> see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/4/534 )
I'm not sure I get it - won't you only ifdef the accessor function?
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-21 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-28 14:23 [PATCH v8 0/4] SysFS driver for QEMU fw_cfg device Gabriel L. Somlo
2016-01-28 14:23 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's " Gabriel L. Somlo
2016-02-21 8:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-02-21 13:06 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2016-02-21 13:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20160221150904-mutt-send-email-mst-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-21 17:20 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2016-02-21 13:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
[not found] ` <20160221130614.GA4511-VPZ87SnTp2qKUezXOiBB2eW1CriLhL8O@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-22 20:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20160222220756-mutt-send-email-mst-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-22 20:26 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
[not found] ` <20160222202623.GI16357-h65ZQ0r4j6KKUezXOiBB2eW1CriLhL8O@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-23 5:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-02-23 13:47 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2016-02-23 14:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20160223160555-mutt-send-email-mst-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-24 0:03 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2016-01-28 14:23 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] kobject: export kset_find_obj() for module use Gabriel L. Somlo
[not found] ` <1453990994-17801-3-git-send-email-somlo-D+Gtc/HYRWM@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-07 7:24 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <20160207072423.GC16215-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-07 14:27 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2016-01-28 14:23 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] firmware: create directory hierarchy for sysfs fw_cfg entries Gabriel L. Somlo
[not found] ` <1453990994-17801-1-git-send-email-somlo-D+Gtc/HYRWM@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-28 14:23 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] devicetree: update documentation for fw_cfg ARM bindings Gabriel L. Somlo
2016-02-03 22:47 ` [PATCH v8 0/4] SysFS driver for QEMU fw_cfg device Matt Fleming
2016-02-10 1:38 ` Greg KH
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