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

[Sunil V L]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 02:29:28PM +0000, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> 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?
> 
Hi Andrea,

Not yet. While basic ACPI changes are merged, the interrupt controller
support is still going on. Looks like it will take few merge windows to
get ACPI fully supported. So, we still need to wait for libvirt change.

Thanks!
Sunil