From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, peter.huangpeng@huawei.com,
Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 05/14] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI GTDT table
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:42:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <575599EF.7010306@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1606061547070.6721@sstabellini-ThinkPad-X260>
Hi Stefano,
On 06/06/16 15:50, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>> I don't know why we need to disable ACPI because we can provide ACPI
>> tables but guest could choose to not use it. And for ARM32 domain, since
>> the linux guest kernel doesn't support ACPI, even we provide ACPI
>> tables, it can't use it, anyway.
>
> Memory usage. Simplicity: if you know you are not going to use ACPI, you
> might as well disable it to have one less moving piece (every line of
> code is potential for a bug). Guest configuration: if your guest
> operating system supports both ACPI and Device Tree and you want to be
> sure that Device Tree is the one that gets used, then you can do it by
> disabling ACPI at the VM level. Linux offers a command line option to do
> that, but other OSes might not and could choose ACPI by default.
Other OSes would have the same problem on baremetal. A VM should
reproduce the baremetal behavior. If you have enabled both ACPI and DT
in your kernel, then you greed to let the kernel choose for you.
However, I agree that an having option to enable/disable ACPI is useful.
The main use case would be embedded environment where ACPI will less used.
Regards,
--
Julien Grall
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Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-31 5:02 [PATCH RESEND 00/14] Xen ARM DomU ACPI support Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 5:02 ` [PATCH RESEND 01/14] libxl/arm: Fix the function name in error log Shannon Zhao
2016-06-03 19:25 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-17 10:46 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-20 1:12 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 5:02 ` [PATCH RESEND 02/14] libxl/arm: Factor out codes for generating DTB Shannon Zhao
2016-06-03 19:25 ` Wei Liu
2016-05-31 5:02 ` [PATCH RESEND 03/14] libxc: Add placeholders for ACPI tables blob and size Shannon Zhao
2016-06-06 10:00 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-06 12:16 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-06 14:20 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 11:05 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 11:13 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 11:27 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 11:35 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 11:42 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 11:59 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 12:06 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 12:32 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 13:06 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 6:53 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-16 10:21 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 10:45 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-16 11:04 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 10:49 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-16 10:53 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-16 11:04 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-07 12:02 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 12:27 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 5:02 ` [PATCH RESEND 04/14] tools: add ACPI tables relevant definitions Shannon Zhao
2016-06-06 10:04 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-06 10:11 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-06 10:27 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-06 12:16 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-06 14:19 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-22 3:24 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-22 8:35 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-22 8:50 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-22 8:55 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-22 9:38 ` [PATCH RESEND 04/14] tools: add ACPI tables relevant definitions (and more) Wei Liu
2016-06-22 10:06 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 5:02 ` [PATCH RESEND 05/14] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI GTDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-06 11:40 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-06 11:52 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-06 12:04 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-06 14:31 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-06 14:50 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-06 15:42 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2016-06-07 9:41 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-06 15:35 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 9:48 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-07 11:55 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-17 3:29 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-17 8:17 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-17 9:15 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-17 13:27 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-06 12:18 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-07 11:02 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 11:19 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 11:30 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 11:36 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 11:39 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 11:43 ` Julien Grall
2016-05-31 5:02 ` [PATCH RESEND 06/14] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI FADT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 13:17 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 14:13 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 14:14 ` Julien Grall
2016-05-31 5:02 ` [PATCH RESEND 07/14] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI DSDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 13:42 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 6:25 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-16 9:44 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 10:01 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-05-31 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 08/14] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI MADT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 13:40 ` Julien Grall
2016-05-31 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 09/14] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI XSDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 10/14] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI RSDP table Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 11/14] libxl/arm: Initialize domain param HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_IRQ Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 12/14] libxl/arm: Add ACPI module Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 13:47 ` Julien Grall
2016-05-31 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 13/14] libxl/arm: initialize memory information of ACPI blob Shannon Zhao
2016-06-06 11:40 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-06 14:35 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 14/14] libxc/xc_dom_core: Copy ACPI tables to guest memory space Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31 10:47 ` [PATCH RESEND 00/14] Xen ARM DomU ACPI support Julien Grall
2016-05-31 14:19 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-03 19:24 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-03 20:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-03 20:20 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-03 20:27 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-03 20:36 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 11:41 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-06 12:26 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-06 15:37 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 16:50 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-07 10:54 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 14:24 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-06 15:48 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-07 1:07 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-07 11:00 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 11:20 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-16 13:25 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-17 10:14 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-17 2:03 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-17 8:18 ` Julien Grall
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