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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	afaerber@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 12/23] acpi: add rules to compile ASL source
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:39:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130923133910.GC1278@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524035D9.5050108@redhat.com>

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:36:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 22/09/2013 15:37, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> > Detect presence of IASL compiler and use it
> > to process ASL source. If not there, use pre-compiled
> > files in-tree. Add script to update the in-tree files.
> > 
> > Note: distros are known to silently update iasl
> > so detect correct iasl flags for the installed version on each run as
> > opposed to at configure time.
> 
> This is not any different from a C compiler, which is likely updated
> much much more often than iasl.

Yes but it's not a theoretical issue:
we did catch iasl changing flags semantics on the fly, once.

I think compilers don't do this as a norm :)

> However, I don't feel strongly at all
> about this.
> 
> Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-22 13:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/23] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 01/23] qemu: add Error to typedefs Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 02/23] qom: pull in qemu/typedefs Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 03/23] qom: cleanup struct Error references Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 04/23] qom: add pointer to int property helpers Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 05/23] fw_cfg: interface to trigger callback on read Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 06/23] loader: support for unmapped ROM blobs Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 07/23] pcie_host: expose UNMAPPED macro Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/23] pcie_host: expose address format Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 09/23] q35: use macro for MCFG property name Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 10/23] q35: expose mmcfg size as a property Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/23] i386: add ACPI table files from seabios Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 12/23] acpi: add rules to compile ASL source Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-23 12:36   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-23 13:39     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2013-09-23 13:44       ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 13/23] acpi: pre-compiled ASL files Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 14/23] loader: use file path size from fw_cfg.h Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 15/23] i386: add bios linker/loader Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-23 12:48   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-23 13:36     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-23 13:39       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-23 13:47         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-23 13:52           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-23 19:08             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 16/23] loader: allow adding ROMs in done callbacks Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 17/23] i386: define pc guest info Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 18/23] acpi/piix: add macros for acpi property names Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 19/23] piix: APIs for pc guest info Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-23  9:27   ` Igor Mammedov
2013-09-23 10:10     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-23 11:14       ` Igor Mammedov
2013-09-23 11:28         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 20/23] ich9: " Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 21/23] pvpanic: add API to access io port Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 22/23] hpet: add API to find it Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 19:22   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-22 19:58     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-22 13:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 23/23] i386: ACPI table generation code from seabios Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-24  9:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/23] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest Gerd Hoffmann
2013-09-24 21:45   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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