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Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machi
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types |
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Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:16:03 +0100 |
On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 10:53, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 04:09:37PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > The flash device is exclusively for the host-controlled firmware, so
> > we should not expose it to the OS. Exposing it risks the OS messing
> > with it, which could break firmware runtime services and surprise the
> > OS when all its changes disappear after reboot.
> >
> > As firmware needs the device and uses DT, we leave the device exposed
> > there. It's up to firmware to remove the nodes from DT before sending
> > it on to the OS. However, there's no need to force firmware to remove
> > tables from ACPI (which it doesn't know how to do anyway), so we
> > simply don't add the tables in the first place. But, as we've been
> > adding the tables for quite some time and don't want to change the
> > default hardware exposed to versioned machines, then we only stop
> > exposing the flash device tables for 5.1 and later machine types.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
> > Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
>
> So who's merging this? Mostly ACPI things so I guess my tree?
> If so can I get acks from ARM maintainers pls?
This is on my to-look-at queue but in theory I'm on holiday this week :-)
-- PMM
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Laszlo Ersek, 2020/07/02
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2020/07/02
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Igor Mammedov, 2020/07/13
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Andrew Jones, 2020/07/14
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2020/07/14
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Andrew Jones, 2020/07/14
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2020/07/14
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Igor Mammedov, 2020/07/14
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Andrew Jones, 2020/07/15
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Andrew Jones, 2020/07/15
- Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types, Laszlo Ersek, 2020/07/15