On 21 January 2016 at 12:54, Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > This patch is the ACPI equivalent of "hw/arm/virt: Add always-on > property to the virt board timer". The timer is always on, and > thus setting this informs Linux that it may switch off the periodic > timer. Switching off the periodic timer substantially reduces the > number of interrupts the host needs to inject. > > Testing note: AArch64 guests (the only ones currently booting with > ACPI) do not actually need this patch to determine it can turn the > periodic timer off. I therefore used a hacked guest kernel to ensure > this patch works as the equivalent DT patch does. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com>
Applied to target-arm.next, thanks. -- PMM
