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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/16] libxl: Load guest ACPI table from file
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 15:55:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160308155517.GI31271@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160303171207.GN7532@perard.uk.xensource.com>

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:12:07PM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:51:43AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 02:56:04PM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > > A user can provide a different ACPI tables than the default one by using
> > > the existing "acpi_firmware" xl's config option or the field
> > > u.hvm.acpi_firmware.
> > > 
> > > libxl will check if the provided table is a DSDT or not.
> > > 
> > 
> > According to xl.cfg manpage, acpi_firmware= cann't be used to override
> > DSDT, so you seem to be changing the semantics of existing option.
> 
> Yes, that was an idea from Ian Campbell <1446634655.6461.48.camel@citrix.com>
> I should at least change the manual.
> 
> Would it be OK to reuse this options? Or should I add a new option, maybe
> acpi_dsdt_override, or some other name?
> 

If repurposing the old option won't break existing guest then that's
fine, otherwise a new option is required.

Wei.

> -- 
> Anthony PERARD

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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-25 14:55 [PATCH v3 00/16] Load BIOS via toolstack instead of been embedded in hvmloader Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:55 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] libxc: Rework extra module initialisation Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51   ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 16:27     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] libxc: Load BIOS and ACPI table into guest memory Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51   ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 16:57     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] configure: #define SEABIOS_PATH and OVMF_PATH Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51   ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 17:03     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-08 15:55       ` Wei Liu
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] firmware/makefile: install BIOS and ACPI blob Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 16:31   ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 15:44     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] libxl: Load guest BIOS from file Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51   ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 17:16     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] libxl: Load guest ACPI table " Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51   ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 17:12     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-08 15:55       ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] hvmloader: Grab the hvm_start_info pointer Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 16:37   ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 16:48     ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] hvmloader: Locate the BIOS blob Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 16:56   ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 16:21     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] hvmloader: Check modules whereabouts Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 16:58   ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 16:00     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-03 16:18       ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 16:34       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] hvmloader: Load SeaBIOS from hvm_start_info modules Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 17:02   ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 16:15     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] hvmloader: Load OVMF from modules Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:03   ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 17:39     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-05 18:05       ` Wei Liu
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] hvmloader: Specific bios_load function required Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:07   ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] hvmloader: Load ACPI tables from hvm_start_info module Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:17   ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 17:59     ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-04  8:39       ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-08 11:15         ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] hvmloader: Compile out the qemu-xen ACPI tables Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:19   ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] hvmloader: Always build-in SeaBIOS and OVMF loader Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:20   ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] hvmloader: do not depend on SEABIOS_PATH or OVMF_PATH Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:24   ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 11:38   ` Wei Liu
2016-02-25 16:16 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] Load BIOS via toolstack instead of been embedded in hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-25 16:43   ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-03 18:03 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-04 10:57   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-08 11:21     ` Anthony PERARD

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