From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW8x3-0000fP-9R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 12:25:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW8x1-0000u0-LA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 12:25:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW8x0-0000te-Sv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 12:25:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4FB91B04.30505@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 19:25:40 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <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> <4FB903D6.5090205@redhat.com> <20120520151544.GP10209@redhat.com> <20120520161637.GB16818@morn.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20120520161637.GB16818@morn.localdomain> 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: Kevin O'Connor Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov On 05/20/2012 07:16 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > Here we in agreement, and I was against patching till it was unavoidable, > > but than pci hotplug started using it, and afterwards processor > > definitions, so no point in avoiding it now by using inferior methods. > > I agree as well. > > What's the background to needing to have dynamic S3/S4 definitions? > (Why will some qemu instances be able to sleep and not others?) > Backwards compatibility. qemu has a -M machine-type option that expose an old qemu's guest-visible attributes. If an old qemu didn't support S3, then -M old shouldn't either. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function