Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] acpi: simplify bios_linker API

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 04:19:02PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> Simplify bios_linker API by adding filei name + blob tracking
> so user would have to suppily less arguments which
> reduces chances of mistake by using wrong blob pointer
> with not related file.
> And also refactor API to take file offsets, as it's what
> actually API were doing only internally, instead of
> using host pointers. I hope ti makes it easier for API user
> to use API without need to look at implementation on
> QEMU/SeaBIOS. 


Thanks!
As we are in freeze, I'll probably defer this until after the release though.

> Igor Mammedov (6):
>   acpi: convert linker from GArray to BOISLinker structure
>   acpi: simplify bios_linker API by removing redundant 'table' argument
>   acpi: cleanup bios_linker_loader_cleanup()
>   tpm: apci: cleanup TCPA table initialization
>   acpi: make bios_linker_loader_add_pointer() API offset based
>   acpi: make bios_linker_loader_add_checksum() API offset based
> 
>  hw/acpi/aml-build.c                  |  33 +++----
>  hw/acpi/bios-linker-loader.c         | 179 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  hw/acpi/nvdimm.c                     |   6 +-
>  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c             |  51 +++++-----
>  hw/i386/acpi-build.c                 |  89 +++++++++--------
>  include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h          |   7 +-
>  include/hw/acpi/bios-linker-loader.h |  28 +++---
>  include/hw/mem/nvdimm.h              |   3 +-
>  8 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)
> 
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> 1.8.3.1