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From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/19] ACPI reorganization for
 hardware-reduced support
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

Hi Markus,

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:28:48PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> You neglected to cc: maintainers.  I'm doing that for you now.
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl can help you finding maintainers.
Sorry about that. I sent a v3 with all maintainers cc'ed.

Cheers,
Samuel.


> Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> writes:
> 
> > This patch set provides an ACPI code reorganization in preparation for
> > adding hardware-reduced support to QEMU.
> >
> > The changes are coming from the NEMU [1] project where we're defining
> > a new x86 machine type: i386/virt. This is an EFI only, ACPI
> > hardware-reduced platform and as such we had to implement support
> > for the latter.
> >
> > As a preliminary for adding hardware-reduced support to QEMU, we did
> > some ACPI code reorganization with the following goals:
> >
> > * Share as much as possible of the current ACPI build APIs between
> >   legacy and hardware-reduced ACPI.
> > * Share the ACPI build code across machine types and architectures and
> >   remove the typical PC machine type dependency.
> >   Eventually we hope to see arm/virt also re-use much of that code.
> >
> > The patches are also available in their own git branch [2].
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/intel/nemu
> > [2] https://github.com/intel/nemu/tree/topic/upstream/acpi
> >
> > v1 -> v2:
> >    * Drop the hardware-reduced implementation for now. Our next patch set
> >      will add hardware-reduced and convert arm/virt to it.
> >    * Implement the ACPI build methods as a QOM Interface Class and convert
> >      the PC machine type to it.
> [...]
>