Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] ACPI / OSL: Allow PCI to be disabled

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:57 PM Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/11/2018 4:46 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 6:37 PM Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/11/2018 12:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 06:13:14PM +0000, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> >>>> Getting ready to allow PCI to be disabled with ACPI enabled. Stub
> >>>> out calls that depend on PCI.
> >>>
> >>> I think you want to skip building at least all of hwpci.c if CONFIG_PCI
> >>> is disabled.  Or replace that whole stiking pile of crap with something
> >>> resembling C code..
> >>>
> >>
> >> I can give it a try but I'm under the impression that we don't touch
> >> ACPICA code in general.
> >>
> >> Feel free to correct me.
> >
> > We don't as a rule, but depending on what the patch looks like, we
> > might not follow the rule this time.
> >
>
> OK. Good to know. I'll take a stab at it.
>
> > I wonder though what we do if some AML wants to access PCI config
> > space via an opregion in there.  Have you thought about that?
> >
>
> Return an error.
>
> AFAIK, ACPI spec says that AML code running on non-existing op-regions to be
> discarded last time I checked.

I guess you mean "disregarded"?

So the spec appears to expect the OS to silently ignore the failures
in those cases, so why should an error be returned?

> I know Linux is noisy about these.
>
> I did boot QEMU without CONFIG_PCI. There was a bunch of ACPI errors reported
> during boot as expected but boot succeeded. There was no hard lockup/failure.