On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 08:06:17AM -0500, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
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So for all arches which support ACPI, I think this driver
should just rely on ACPI.
There was a discussion about that a few versions ago, and IIRC the
conclusion was not to expect the firmware to contend for fw_cfg access
after the guest kernel boots:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/5/283
Interesting. Igor wanted to do this again recently ...
I'll think it over and get back to you/list on this.
(I even had a prototype version doing what you suggested, but per the above
reference decided to drop it -- which IMHO is for the better, since otherwise
I'd have had to ifdef between ACPI and non-ACPI versions of the driver --
see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/4/534 )
I'm not sure I get it - won't you only ifdef the accessor function?
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