On 26 February 2014 20:05, Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:55:58PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wednesday 26 February 2014 10:34:54 Christoffer Dall wrote:
For more information about UEFI and ACPI booting, see [4] and [5].
What's the point of having ACPI in a virtual machine? You wouldn't need to abstract any of the hardware in AML since you already know what the virtual hardware is, so I can't see how this would help anyone.
The most common response I've been getting so far is that people generally want their VMs to look close to the real thing, but not sure how valid an argument that is.
Some people feel strongly about this and seem to think that ARMv8 kernels will only work with ACPI in the future...
My strong feeling is that AArch64 kernels *may* support ACPI in the future ;).
On a more serious note, both FDT and ACPI will be first-class citizens on AArch64 and I have no intention whatsoever of dropping FDT.