Xen devel - Dec 2005 - RE: [PATCH][RESEND] add "acpi" option in xmexample.vmxconfig file

Thanks for the good suggestion. Will send the updated patch later. 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk] 
>Sent: 2005年12月30日 18:33
>To: Yu, Ke
>Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] add "acpi" option in 
>xmexample.vmxconfig file
>
>
>On 30 Dec 2005, at 01:52, Yu, Ke wrote:
>
>> Rebase the patch due to its conflict with new changeset 8445.
>> Would somebody apply it or give some comments? Thanks
>
>The info block written by vmx builder is no longer merely vcpu 
>information. Hence its name and the magic string at the start of the 
>block are badly named.
>
>I would like to see a more ACPI-styled table. At the moment, can you 
>please define a struct something like the following (where the 
>definition is available both to vmx builder and vmxassist -- I guess 
>the struct may need to be copied in two different header files):
>
>struct hvm_info_table {
>     char signature[8]; /* "HVM INFO" */
>     u32 length;
>     u8 checksum;
>     u8 acpi_enabled;
>     u8 pad[2];
>     u32 nr_vcpus;
>};
>
>Where the checksum is a simple ACPI-style twos-complement byte 
>summation and test for zero.
>
>This has the advantages of a meaningful name and gets rid of magic 
>numbers (indexes into array of unsigned ints).
>
>  -- Keir
>
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