[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs just because there's no local APIC
Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 20/06/2009 00:44, "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> I assume that putting AML into Xen has been considered, but I don't >>> anything about those deliberations. Keir? Jun? >>> >> >> Yes, it was one of the options years ago. We did not do that because Linux >> and >> Solaris (as dom0) already had the AML interpreter and it's overkill and >> redundant to have such a large component in the Xen hypervisor. Since the >> hypervisor does most of the power management (i.e. P, C, S-state, etc.) >> getting the info from dom0 today, we might want to reconsider the option. > > Yes, we could reconsider. However is there any stuff that dom0 remains > responsible for (e.g., PCI management, and therefore PCI hotplug) where it > would continue to need to be OSPM, interpreting certain AML objects? In > general how safe would it be to have two layered entities both playing at > being OSPM? Short of running the oddball acpi based drivers. I'm not familiar with any acpi in the pci management. Eric _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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