Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/4] i386: expose floppy-related objects in SSDT

[Roman Kagan]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 03:09:36PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 18:04:08 +0300
> Roman Kagan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Windows on UEFI systems is only capable of detecting the presence and
> > the type of floppy drives via corresponding ACPI objects.
> > 
> > Those objects are added in the last patch of the series; the three
> > preceding ones pave the way to it, by making the necessary data
> > public and by moving the whole floppy drive controller description into
> > runtime-generated SSDT.
> > 
> > Note that the series conflicts with Igor's patchset for dynamic DSDT, in
> > particular, with "[PATCH 50/74] pc: acpi: move FDC0 device from DSDT
> > to SSDT"; I haven't managed to avoid that while trying to meet
> > maintainer's comments.
> To remove conflicts and to make it more suitable for stable, I'd drop
>  "2/4 i386/acpi: make floppy controller object dynamic"

Erm...  I thought I did what Michael requested:

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 08:17:45AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Or rather, start series with a patch making FDC conditional,

So what do I need to do to get this thing merged?


> and split test blob out of
>  "4/4 i386: populate floppy drive information in SSDT"
> into a separate patch so one can see effects of applying 4/4
> and then update blobs if resulting ASL diff is as expected.

This will break bisectability, won't it?

Roman.