Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/19] pc: acpi: move SSDT part of memhp into a custom table

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/19] pc: acpi: move SSDT part of memhp into a custom table
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 20:41:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151024204001-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445612242-79172-7-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com>

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 04:57:09PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> +    /* copy AML table into ACPI tables blob and patch header there */
> +    g_array_append_vals(table_data, table->buf->data, table->buf->len);
> +    build_header(linker, table_data,
> +        (void *)(table_data->data + table_data->len - table->buf->len),
> +        "MHPT", table->buf->len, 2);
> +    free_aml_allocator();
> +}

Why not just put this in an SSDT?
And what guarantees that there won't be an MHPT table
in a future version of the spec, conflicting with this use?

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MST