Il 15/10/2014 15:19, Igor Mammedov ha scritto: > however I'm not sure that SSDT byte-for-byte compatible will make > things better. > Since SSDT includes snippets of AML compiled by IASL, hex-templates > could be different depending on IASL version.
SSDT is simple enough that there shouldn't be differences. If this were a problem, we could unconditionally use .hex.generated files or move the generation entirely to C, similar to what we do for bridges and what SeaBIOS used to do. Paolo > Ultimately > that would make us to keep versioned by machine type binary templates > so that we could guaranty byte-to-byte identity. > > Perhaps we should reconsider and think one more time about > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00205.html > > which solves migration size issue and doesn't tie us to maintanance > nightmare with versioned tables. I'd preffer to keep tables > un-versioned as long as possible.