On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:29:53PM +0200, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> It's not possible to use exactly the same code for parsing.
The access methods can be separate and don't affect the parsing logic.
> The access methods are different (need to deal with port-IO for
> built-in description on PCI, for example) and more importantly, the
> structure is different as well. The ACPI table needs nodes for
> virtio-iommu while the built-in description is contained in the
> virtio-iommu itself. So the endpoint nodes point to virtio-iommu node
> on ACPI, while they don't need a pointer on the built-in desc. I kept
> as much as possible common in structures and implementation, but in
> the end we still need about 200 unique lines on each side.
Will it hurt the non-ACPI version to have the not-needed pointers anyway
to keep the parsers the same?
Joerg
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