Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 02/20] acpi/hvmloader: Move acpi_info initialization out of ACPI code

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/03/2016 10:55 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Well, first of all the definition of this structure will likely need to
> become part of the public interface, so that all consumers of it
> (hvmloader, libxc, and maybe the domain builder) can access it.
> Which then raises the question of how to deal with updates to
> that structure: We should avoid making this part of the stable
> public interface, but limiting it to Xen and tools would exclude
> hvmloader.
>
> Perhaps the follow-on thing - consumers living in far apart
> portions of the tree, and hence it's easy to forget one if an
> adjustment is being done - isn't that much different from e.g.
> touching code consumed by qemu. But then again we all know
> that some things at the xen/tools vs qemu boundary are
> pretty fragile, and I'd like to avoid such here.
>

We can add version to acpi_build_tables() call (or to struct acpi_config)?

-boris


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