Re: [PATCH v2] hw/arm: Restrict APEI tables generation to the 'virt' machine

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 17:22, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> While APEI is a generic ACPI feature (usable by X86 and ARM64), only
> the 'virt' machine uses it, by enabling the RAS Virtualization. See
> commit 2afa8c8519: "hw/arm/virt: Introduce a RAS machine option").
>
> Restrict the APEI tables generation code to the single user: the virt
> machine. If another machine wants to use it, it simply has to 'select
> ACPI_APEI' in its Kconfig.
>
> Fixes: aa16508f1d ("ACPI: Build related register address fields via hardware 
> error fw_cfg blob")
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> ---
> v2: Reworded
>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Xiang Zheng <zhengxiang9@huawei.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> ---
>  default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak | 1 -
>  hw/arm/Kconfig                  | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

I assume this needs a respin now Paolo's reworking of
default-configs/ has gone into master.

thanks
-- PMM