On Monday 18 November 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > Can you point to specific patches? > > No, because they weren't publically posted, so I don't feel that I can > say all that much; they were from quite a large company though. I see. > > I can't say I'm an expert on this, but everything I've seen with ACPI > > is tables of binary data with four-letter identifiers that are defined > > by the ACPI group, but not using strings in a similar manner to DT. > > They are using strings which are the same as the DT properties, but > without the vendor prefix - but yes, to only retrieve things like > booleans, u32s and such like. They also have support for fixed-rate > clocks via the clk API too... > > I'd like them to post the patches publically so a more open discussion > could occur. I'd definitely like that too, especially since managing clocks etc. is (as multiple people have pointed out in this thread) a very un-ACPI-like thing to do and it would be important for them to have the debate whether that has a chance of getting accepted in the kernel (or the ACPI spec, for that matter) or not. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
