On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 09:58:22AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 04:29:44PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote: >> > We are pushing a lot of boundaries and doing things on ACPI that have >> > never been done before. SPI, GPIOs, Clocks, Regulators, composite >> > devices, key-value properties. All brand new territory, and the Linux >> > world is driving a lot of it. >> >> This is a bit of a surprise and a significant concern. >> >> The whole point behind ACPI is that it's supposed to abstract away nearly >> all of that, and _not_ expose clocks, regulators and other things to >> the kernel. If we're going to expose it, then we might as well go all >> the way and do it with DT. > > This depends what you want from ACPI, and what market ACPI is being > targetted at. We're talking ACPI on servers here. -Olof -- 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
