From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
Cc: seabios@seabios.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Get system state configuration from QEMU and patch DSDT with it.
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 19:49:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120520164905.GD26391@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120520163913.GA18509@morn.localdomain>
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:39:13PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 07:25:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 05/20/2012 07:16 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > > Here we in agreement, and I was against patching till it was unavoidable,
> > > > but than pci hotplug started using it, and afterwards processor
> > > > definitions, so no point in avoiding it now by using inferior methods.
> > >
> > > I agree as well.
> > >
> > > What's the background to needing to have dynamic S3/S4 definitions?
> > > (Why will some qemu instances be able to sleep and not others?)
> > >
> >
> > Backwards compatibility. qemu has a -M machine-type option that expose
> > an old qemu's guest-visible attributes. If an old qemu didn't support
> > S3, then -M old shouldn't either.
>
> The DSDT has claimed S3, S4, and S5 support since SeaBIOS has
> supported ACPI. What's the background to the requirement to stop
> claiming support for it?
>
Not all guests have working S3/S4 implementation. We want management to
be able to disable S3/S4 for such guests. S4 value changes since we want
to distinguish between S4 and S5 in qemu.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-20 16:49 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 [this message]
2012-05-20 16:11 ` Kevin O'Connor
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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