From: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Get system state configuration from QEMU and patch DSDT with it.
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 12:11:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120520161148.GA16818@morn.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB8F3F5.6010903@redhat.com>
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 04:39:01PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> What about
>
> If (Fcfg(...)) {
> Method()...
> }
>
> ?
>
> (i.e.. define the method conditionally at runtime)
As Gleb points out, this wont work. AML defines a static
device/method/variable tree heirarchy. Only the return values of
methods is programmable. This completely confused me when I first
started looking at AML.
ACPI is truly a bizarre spec.
-Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-20 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-20 9:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Fix aml_name_string() to recognize block name modifiers Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 9:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Add ACPI_EXTRACT_PKG_START macro parsing Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 9:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Get system state configuration from QEMU and patch DSDT with it Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 11:44 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-20 12:15 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 12:30 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-20 12:36 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 12:47 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-20 12:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 13:39 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-20 13:57 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 14:34 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-20 14:43 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 14:46 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-20 15:15 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 16:16 ` Kevin O'Connor
2012-05-20 16:25 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-20 16:39 ` Kevin O'Connor
2012-05-20 16:49 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-20 16:11 ` Kevin O'Connor [this message]
2012-05-20 10:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 1/3] Fix aml_name_string() to recognize block name modifiers Alon Levy
2012-05-20 11:13 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-23 1:23 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin O'Connor
2012-06-20 13:08 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-06-22 1:06 ` Kevin O'Connor
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