Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] ACPI: ARM: exclude DMI calls

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On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:10:46AM +0000, Zheng, Lv wrote:
> > From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Garrett
> > Ugh. Really? People have been fairly careful about making sure that the
> > x86 SoC code is selected correctly at runtime, and losing that because
> > ACPICA is broken would be a shame. I think this is something that needs
> > to support runtime switching even if there's also support for building
> > kernels that only implement the reduced hardware profile.
> 
> If my reading is correct, do you mean x86 SoCs should have already tested the code.

I don't know if anyone has deployed x86 SoCs with reduced hardware yet, 
but it seems like something that might happen.

> So if ARM need ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE to be defined, the <include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h> should have lines like:
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_IS_ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE
> #define ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE TRUE
> #endif
> And ARCH_IS_ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE should only be selected by CONFIG_ARM.

Is ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE supposed to indicate support for the reduced 
hardware profile, or that the platform *only* implements the reduced 
hardware profile?

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