Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] hw/riscv/virt: pflash improvements

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:10:12AM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 04:42:57AM -0400, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 10:34:36AM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 03:49:11AM -0400, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > > So, are edk2 users the only ones who would (temporarily) need to
> > > > manually turn ACPI off if virt-manager started enabling it by
> > > > default?
> > >
> > > I assume so, but I'm not tracking firmware status. If the firmware
> > > doesn't extract the ACPI tables from QEMU and present them to the
> > > guest (afaik only edk2 does that), then the guest kernel falls back
> > > to DT, which is why it's working for you.
> > >
> > > I suppose we should wait until Linux merges the ACPI patches, before
> > > adding RISC-V to the libvirt capabilities ACPI list.
> >
> > That sounds reasonable to me, but note that 1) the libvirt change
> > might take a while to propagate to distros and 2) someone will have
> > to remind me to prepare such a patch when the time comes ;)
>
> Initial ACPI support will probably be merged for 6.4. So maybe it is
> time to get the libvirt side of things going.

Randomly remembered about this. Did ACPI support make it into 6.4
after all? Is now a good time to change libvirt?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization