From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW7PH-0001ST-RE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 10:46:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW7PG-0007S0-4l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 10:46:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24986) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW7PF-0007Rv-Sg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 10:46:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4FB903D6.5090205@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:46:46 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1337504620-20378-3-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> <4FB8D933.5070800@redhat.com> <20120520121539.GJ10209@redhat.com> <4FB8E3FA.2040408@redhat.com> <20120520123633.GL10209@redhat.com> <4FB8E7C6.5090000@redhat.com> <20120520125936.GM10209@redhat.com> <4FB8F3F5.6010903@redhat.com> <20120520135733.GN10209@redhat.com> <4FB90110.1000003@redhat.com> <20120520144338.GO10209@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20120520144338.GO10209@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Get system state configuration from QEMU and patch DSDT with it. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gleb Natapov Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 05/20/2012 05:43 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > > > Or it can be a fixed address in low memory, or a scratch register in > > hardware. > > > Both will work (fixed addresses are better be avoided and who needs > another PV device), but I do not see how either of them is better then > patching. What is your concern? > Patching is harder to maintain. Unfortunately it's unavoidable. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function