On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 01:44:45PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 8/11/25 13:31, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 11:31:58AM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > > > I've been maintaining this package for a long time. It's pretty > > > stable, and most bugs get fixed in the Linux kernel first (it's > > > essentially the same code as the ACPI subsystem). > > > > > > But, life moves on. I just don't have the time, nor the same > > > level of interest as I used to have, so it's time to have someone > > > else pick this up. > > > > 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 With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
