Re: orphaning acpica-tools

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 02:40:58PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 01:44:45PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 8/11/25 13:31, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > 
> > > This provides /usr/bin/iasl, a compiler for ACPI definitions, and is
> > > used by at least: xen, ed2, seabios (and hence qemu etc).  I've CC'd
> > > the relevant maintainers to see if we have capacity to take this in
> > > the virtualization team.
> > SeaBIOS and QEMU don't really need iasl anymore (QEMU uses as a disassembler
> > in its testcases, but that's it).
> 
> Without iasl we just get told that bios-tables-test failed on certain
> ACPI tests in QEMU. With iasl we get told the full diff of the ACPI table
> failures. Getting such details is useful in automated builds to make it
> easier to diagnose what failed/regressed. So it'd be nice if someone is
> willing to keep it around

iasl is a build dependency for edk2.  So, given that nobody stepped up
while I was on my summer vacation I'll go raise my hand and take it.

take care,
  Gerd

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