On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 09:15:19AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 09:12:06AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Something like:
> > > 
> > > struct hlist_head DSDTTree;
> > > 
> > > struct dsdt_entry {
> > >     struct hlist_node node;
> > >     char *name;  // eg, "_SB.PCI0.ISA.COM1._HID"
> > >     int type; // eg: Device, Name, Integer, String, ResourceTemplate, 
> > > other
> > >     void *value; // points to integer, string, resource template, or NULL
> > > };
> > > 
> > > Once the tree is parsed, it should be simple to walk the in-memory
> > > linked-list to find desired values later.
> > 
> > I was thinking more about storing a list of devices with parsed data,
> > i.e. basically put into a linked list what the current code collects
> > in the parse_dev struct.
> 
> FWIW, I suspect it will be painful to grow 'struct parse_dev' if there
> are future users.  (For example, if there is more than one memory
> range needed, if it is necessary to check for the existence of some
> name other than _STA, etc. .)  In contrast, I suspect a few helper
> functions that can walk the tree would be sufficient to extract the
> info currently in 'struct parse_dev' as needed.

Went with a hybrid approach now.  parse_dev is still there, but for the
most part part it stores pointers into the dsdt table and parsing
happens later as needed.

sneak preview @ https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/seabios/log/?h=dsdt

> > Then we can easily lookup the virtio-mmio devices later.  Maybe also
> > check for isa devices (don't bother waiting for ps2 probe timeout if
> > acpi says there isn't a keyboard ...).  I don't see any other use
> > cases.
> 
> It would be helpful to extract the location of builtin sdcards from
> the dsdt (currently, the "etc/sdcard" cbfs file is used instead).

That'll be used with coreboot, right?  How do sdcard dsdt entries look
like?

cheers,
  Gerd
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