On 16 November 2017 at 16:13, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 04:10:22PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: >> If there are known-buggy iasl versions in the wild we could >> consider a configure test and treat buggy-iasl like no-iasl. > > iasl has long been broken on big-endian, but it has also long contained > code that simply makes it exit immediately in that case, and qemu copes > with that. So if there's buggy iasl it would be a distro which removed > this big-endian check and tried to make it work on big-endian but failed. > Fedora tried the latter, but at least in rawhide it works properly now. > I'm unclear if we shipped broken iasl with the BE check removed in stable > versions though
In this case this is Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (xenial) on s390x, with linux1@lxub05:~$ iasl -v Intel ACPI Component Architecture ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20160108-64 Copyright (c) 2000 - 2016 Intel Corporation thanks -- PMM
