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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.0] tests/acpi-test: do not run iasl
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 19:00 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 March 2014 17:47, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com> wrote:
> > There is an issue with iasl on big endian machines: It
> > cannot disassemble acpi tables taken from little endian
> > machines, so we cannot check the expected tables.
> >
> > Do not run iasl on those machines until this
> > problem is solved by the acpica community.
> 
> Is there an upstream bug report for this? It would be
> nice to have a reference somewhere so we can tell if
> we can remove the check in future...
Hi Peter,
I opened a bug http://bugs.acpica.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082 and
started a discussion https://lists.acpica.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/000637.html

Thanks,
Marcel

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>