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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, Gal Hammer <ghammer@redhat.com>, edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>, "Moore,
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:34:51 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 01:56:44PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > As the subject suggests, I have terrible news.
> > 
> > I'll preserve the full context here, so that it's easy to scroll back to
> > the ASL for reference.
> > 
> > I'm also CC'ing edk2-devel, because a number of BIOS developers should
> > be congregating there.
> 
> Wow, bravo! It does look like we need to go back to
> the drawing board.
I suggest we go back to the last Gal's series
which is though not universal but a simple and
straightforward solution.
That series with comments addressed probably
is what we need in the end.

> The only crazy thing you didn't try is to use
> an XSDT instead of the DSDT.
> I find it unlikely that this will help ...
>