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? -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
