Re: [PATCH v2] qapi: Add 'acpi' field to 'query-machines' output

[Peter Krempa]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:12:34 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Report which machine types support ACPI so that management applications
> can properly use the 'acpi' property even on platforms such as ARM where
> support for ACPI depends on the machine type and thus checking presence
> of '-machine acpi=' in 'query-command-line-options' is insufficient.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Diff to v1:
>  - Fix spelling of 'ACPI' in 'machine.json'
>  - Removed addition of a field to 'struct MachineClass' which was not
>     used in the final version

It would be great to get this patch into the release as will allow
libvirt to properly handle setting of ACPI now that '-no-acpi' flag was
recently deprecated:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-02/msg07926.html

The libvirt patches which make use of this feature were posted at:

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2023-March/238217.html