From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yznfx-0006ee-3Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:00:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yznft-00084s-Ca for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:00:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yznft-00084k-6E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:00:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:00:13 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20150602165339-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1432676024-1046793-1-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1432676024-1046793-4-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150531181159.GH5268@redhat.com> <556D1EDE.8060100@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150602110702-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <556DAE20.5070709@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150602152340-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <556DBDA4.2040202@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <556DBDA4.2040202@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/6] Support Physical Presence Interface Spec List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Berger Cc: imammedo@redhat.com, Kevin O'Connor , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, quan.xu@intel.com On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 10:28:52AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > And I am glad that I haven't > converted the ASL to C code, because this would make it a lot more difficult > to develop and debug... > > Stefan Let's avoid hyperbole. Mostly there's a bunch of aml_append calls sprinkled on each line of ASL code. It's harder to develop since there's no compiler catching mistakes statically, that's true. Debugging is more or less the same since you can always dump the tables and disassemble them with iasl. -- MST