Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] hw/acpi: add indication for i8042 in IA-PC boot flags of the FADT table

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

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:17:30PM +0200, Liav Albani wrote:
> This can allow the guest OS to determine more easily if i8042 controller
> is present in the system or not, so it doesn't need to do probing of the
> controller, but just initialize it immediately, before enumerating the
> ACPI AML namespace.
> 
> To allow "flexible" indication, I don't hardcode the bit at location 1
> as on in the IA-PC boot flags, but try to search for i8042 on the ISA
> bus to verify it exists in the system.
> 
> Why this is useful you might ask - this patch allows the guest OS to
> probe and use the i8042 controller without decoding the ACPI AML blob
> at all. For example, as a developer of the SerenityOS kernel, I might
> want to allow people to not try to decode the ACPI AML namespace (for
> now, we still don't support ACPI AML as it's a work in progress), but
> still to not probe for the i8042 but just use it after looking in the
> IA-PC boot flags in the ACPI FADT table.

OK still waiting for v5.

> Liav Albani (3):
>   tests/acpi: i386: allow FACP acpi table changes
>   hw/acpi: add indication for i8042 in IA-PC boot flags of the FADT
>     table
>   tests/acpi: i386: update FACP table differences
> 
>  hw/acpi/aml-build.c            |  11 ++++++++++-
>  hw/i386/acpi-build.c           |   9 +++++++++
>  hw/i386/acpi-microvm.c         |   9 +++++++++
>  include/hw/acpi/acpi-defs.h    |   1 +
>  tests/data/acpi/q35/FACP       | Bin 244 -> 244 bytes
>  tests/data/acpi/q35/FACP.nosmm | Bin 244 -> 244 bytes
>  tests/data/acpi/q35/FACP.slic  | Bin 244 -> 244 bytes
>  tests/data/acpi/q35/FACP.xapic | Bin 244 -> 244 bytes
>  8 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.35.1