Hi Grant, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 02:29:34PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:57:38 +0800, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ACPI 5.1 has been released and now be freely available for > > download [1]. It fixed some major gaps to run ACPI on ARM, > > this patch just follow the ACPI 5.1 spec and prepare the > > code to run ACPI on ARM64. > > > > ACPI 5.1 has some major changes for the following tables and > > method which are essential for ARM platforms: > > 1) MADT table updates. > > 2) FADT updates for PSCI > > 3) GTDT > > > > This patch set is the ARM64 ACPI core patches covered MADT, FADT > > and GTDT, platform board specific drivers are not covered by this > > patch set, but we provide drivers for Juno to boot with ACPI only > > in the follwing patch set for review purpose. [...] > I've read through this entire series now. In my mind, aside from a few > comments that I know you're addressing, this is ready. The hooks into > arm64 core code are not terribly invasive, it is nicely organized and > manageable. Get the next version out ASAP, but I would also like to see > the diffs from this version to the next so I don't need to review the > entire series again. > > Regarding the requests to refactor ACPICA to work better for ARM. I > completely agree that it should be done, but I do not think it should be > a prerequisite to getting this core support merged. That kind of > refactoring is far easier to justify when it has immediate improvement > on the mainline codebase, and it gives us a working baseline to test > against. Doing it the other way around just makes things harder. > > I would really like to see the next version of this series go into > linux-next. I think this is ready for some wider exposure. Have you got > a branch being pulled into Fengguang's autobuilder yet? Apart from build testing, what does this wider exposure achieve? Is there a platform available that would be able to boot Linux (to a meaingful state) with this patch series alone? I'm mindful of merging arch code that I'm unable to test, so I'd really rather it was merged along with the code (and a devicetree) for a platform that can use it. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
