Re: ACPI vs DT at runtime

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:21:57PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
[snip]
> I think that with ACPI systems the data we would have to convert is
> going to be larger and more varied than that. Given we already have code
> in the kernel for handling ACPI, I believe it would be more valuable to
> leverage that and support ACPI directly in those places which require it

I'll bite.  How realistic a proprosition is that?  When I've talked with
a few folks here and there they say, roughly, that "the ARM bit" being
set means it's a whole new ball game, and no, they don't expect to be
able to re-use a lot of the existing code.

-- 
Tom
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