From: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com,
peter.huangpeng@huawei.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
shannon.zhao@linaro.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI DSDT table
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:50:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57708659.3000805@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <576C116D.3010803@arm.com>
On 2016/6/24 0:42, Julien Grall wrote:
>
>
> On 23/06/16 15:50, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2016, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>>> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_empty_dsdt_arm.asl
>>> b/tools/libxl/libxl_empty_dsdt_arm.asl
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..005fa6a
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_empty_dsdt_arm.asl
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
>>> +/******************************************************************************
>>>
>>> + * DSDT for Xen ARM DomU
>>> + *
>>> + * Copyright (c) 2004, Intel Corporation.
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>> modify it
>>> + * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
>>> + * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but
>>> WITHOUT
>>> + * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>> MERCHANTABILITY or
>>> + * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
>>> License for
>>> + * more details.
>>> + *
>>> + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>>> along with
>>> + * this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>>> + */
>>> +
>>> +DefinitionBlock ("DSDT.aml", "DSDT", 3, "XenARM", "Xen DSDT", 1)
>>> +{
>>> +
>>> +}
>>
>> Why do we need C code to generate the "static" asl? Can't we just
>> manually writing the asl code here and get rid of libxl_mk_dsdt_arm.c?
>
> Whilst I agree that manually writing the asl code sounds more appealing,
> we need to write one node per processor. So currently this would be 128
> nodes and this will likely increase in the future.
>
> Generating the asl has the advantage to be able to add new property in
> the processor node easily without having to modify one by one all the
> nodes.
Yes, and maybe in the future it needs to add other information in DSDT.
Thanks,
--
Shannon
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Thread overview: 130+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-23 3:16 [PATCH v2 00/17] Xen ARM DomU ACPI support Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] libxl/arm: Factor out codes for generating DTB Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] libxc: Add placeholders for ACPI tables blob and size Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] libxl/arm: Add a configuration option for ARM DomU ACPI Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 13:39 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 14:34 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 10:40 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-07 15:30 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 3:40 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 9:22 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-12 11:33 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 14:17 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 14:33 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 14:45 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-13 7:54 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-13 9:20 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-13 9:48 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-13 10:03 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-15 8:00 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-15 8:07 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-18 19:40 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-19 10:40 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-19 10:44 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-23 15:53 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] libxl/arm: prepare for constructing ACPI tables Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 13:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 14:23 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 14:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 16:18 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI RSDP table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI XSDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI GTDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 15:00 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 16:19 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 16:26 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 16:58 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 1:44 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 10:17 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-29 9:29 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-29 9:42 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-29 13:41 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-05 16:42 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-06 9:50 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-06 10:16 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] libxl/arm: Factor MPIDR computing codes out as a helper Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 16:29 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI MADT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 16:36 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI FADT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] libxl/arm: Construct ACPI DSDT table Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 14:50 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-23 16:42 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 1:50 ` Shannon Zhao [this message]
2016-06-23 17:03 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 6:01 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 10:29 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 12:05 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-28 11:03 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-28 13:41 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-29 18:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-01 7:58 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-01 10:18 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-01 14:42 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-01 15:14 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:16 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] libxl/arm: Add a helper to calculate the ACPI table checksum Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 17:05 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] libxl/arm: Link all ACPI tables into one buffer Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 17:10 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] libxl/arm: Factor finalise_one_memory_node as a gerneric function Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] libxl/arm: Add ACPI module Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 18:35 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-25 3:22 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 9:48 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] libxc/xc_dom_arm: Copy ACPI tables to guest space Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 18:46 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 6:25 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-06-27 10:49 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-27 12:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-05 17:13 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-06 9:46 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-06 10:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-12 3:47 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 9:25 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-12 11:35 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 14:42 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 14:50 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 14:57 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-12 15:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-12 15:13 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 15:21 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-12 16:05 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-12 16:10 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-12 16:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-13 15:22 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-13 17:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-14 11:15 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-15 9:39 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-19 10:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-20 6:52 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-20 9:32 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-25 7:56 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-28 11:10 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-14 11:29 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-14 13:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-20 12:33 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-20 13:33 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-20 13:41 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-20 14:09 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-20 17:28 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-20 19:51 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-21 17:53 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-21 18:23 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-21 18:54 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-21 19:14 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-21 21:15 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 8:38 ` George Dunlap
2016-07-25 9:46 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-25 22:06 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-25 22:46 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-25 23:40 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-07-26 1:17 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-28 11:06 ` Julien Grall
2016-07-28 12:42 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-08-02 11:01 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-03 19:20 ` Julien Grall
2016-08-04 10:17 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-02 11:01 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-07 15:35 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-23 3:17 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] libxl/arm: Initialize domain param HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_IRQ Shannon Zhao
2016-06-23 18:48 ` Julien Grall
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