Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ACPI/arm-virt: add DBG2

[Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>]

On 2015/9/8 21:04, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:18:27AM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>> On 2015/9/7 22:23, Leif Lindholm wrote:
>>> The Debug Port Table 2 (DBG2) is mandated by the ARM Server Base Boot
>>> Requirements specification. Add the DBG2 table definitions, and set up
>>> an entry in the ARM virt machine for the pl011 UART.
>>
>> Looking at Documentation/arm64/acpi_object_usage.txt in Linux kernel, it
>> says
>> "
>> DBG2   Signature Reserved (signature == "DBG2")
>>        == DeBuG port table 2 ==
>>        Microsoft only table, will not be supported.
>> "
>> It seems that Linux kernel doesn't support or need it, but Windows
>> requires it. So does it need to test this on Windows?
> 
> No, it can be tested under Linux with the set I just sent out:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-September/368614.html

So you need to change Documentation/arm64/acpi_object_usage.txt as well.
But that is kernel side.

> But I needed this set for QEMU for the kernel people to have something
> to test :)
> 
> That said, I would be overjoyed if someone _could_ test it on Windows.
> 
> /
>     Leif
> 
>>> Leif Lindholm (2):
>>>   ACPI: Add definitions for the DBG2 table
>>>   hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Add DBG2 table
>>>
>>>  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c    | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>  include/hw/acpi/acpi-defs.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>  2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Shannon
>>
> 
> 

-- 
Shannon