From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
julien.grall@arm.com, jbeulich@suse.com,
zhaoshenglong@huawei.com, roger.pau@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/19] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:18:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160915101822.GH15958@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15ee87ab-ea40-2b6b-3df6-1ded453ab630@oracle.com>
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:21:39AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 09/07/2016 02:59 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > The goal here is to build ACPI tables for PVHv2/HVMlite guests while reusing existing
> > hvmloader's ACPI builder code. The builder is provided as a library in tools/libacpi.
> >
> > This is version 3 of the series, see individual patches for changes. It can
> > be fetched from git://oss.oracle.com/git/bostrovs/xen.git:acpi_v3
>
> Wei, Ian --- are there any comments from the toolstack perspective?
>
> >
> > The series is probably still gated by lack of an ACK from Lenovo for the
> > relicensing patch (included here as patch 1).
> >
>
> So I looked again at commit 801d469ad8b2b88f669326327df03d03200efbfb
> (which is the patch from Lenovo) and it only does 2 things (assuming I
> parsed ASL correctly):
> * Adds _PIC method
> * Controls and describes legacy PCI interrupt routing. This
> functionality has actually been moved into mk_dsdt.c and so this ASL
> code is now generated.
>
> Neither of these two things is used by libxl so technically we may not
> need the ACK from Lenovo. OTOH, we may forget about this restriction in
> the future and accidentally include those two later.
>
This is a risk I would rather not take. As you said, we may forget about
the restriction in the future.
Wei.
>
> -boris
>
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-07 18:59 [PATCH v3 00/19] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 01/19] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1 Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 19:48 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] acpi/hvmloader: Collect processor and NUMA info in hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-08 13:41 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] acpi/hvmloader: Set TIS header address " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] acpi/hvmloader: Make providing IOAPIC in MADT optional Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] acpi/hvmloader: Build WAET optionally Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] acpi/hvmloader: Replace mem_alloc() and virt_to_phys() with memory ops Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-08 13:54 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] acpi/hvmloader: Translate all addresses when assigning addresses in ACPI tables Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] acpi/hvmloader: Link ACPI object files directly Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-08 13:56 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] acpi/hvmloader: Include file/paths adjustments Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-08 14:05 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-08 18:29 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] acpi: Move ACPI code to tools/libacpi Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] x86: Allow LAPIC-only emulation_flags for HVM guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] libacpi: Build DSDT for PVH guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-08 14:09 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-14 4:13 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-09-14 12:47 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] acpi: Makefile should better tolerate interrupts Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-08 14:15 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-08 18:51 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-09 8:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-09 13:07 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-09 13:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-09 13:56 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-09 14:13 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-09 14:31 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-09 14:33 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-09 14:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-09 15:20 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-09 16:05 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-09 16:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] libxc/libxl: Allow multiple ACPI modules Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 10:13 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] libxl/acpi: Add ACPI e820 entry Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 10:13 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] libxl/pvhv2: Include APIC page in MMIO hole for PVHv2 guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 10:13 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] ilibxl: Initialize domain build info before calling libxl__domain_make Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 10:13 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] libxl/acpi: Build ACPI tables for HVMlite guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-08 14:20 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-08 18:53 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-09 8:05 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-09 13:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-09 13:50 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-09 14:02 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-07 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] libxc/xc_dom_core: Copy ACPI tables to guest space Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 10:13 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-14 15:21 ` [PATCH v3 00/19] Make ACPI builder available to components other than hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 10:18 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-09-15 10:20 ` Julien Grall
2016-09-15 10:22 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-15 12:39 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 13:48 ` Julien Grall
2016-09-15 14:07 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 14:21 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-15 15:28 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-15 16:05 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-15 16:40 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-16 6:45 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-16 12:41 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-16 15:22 ` Lars Kurth
2016-09-16 15:53 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-19 15:30 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-19 15:42 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-09-19 15:49 ` Ian Jackson
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