Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v7 04/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce early_param for "acpi" and pass acpi=force to enable ACPI

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What is the reason to assume that DT is preferred over ACPI?  I would
> have thought that if ACPI is present, then it means we're on an ARM64
> server platform, and therefore it should be used.  It seems silly to
> require acpi=force on every ARM64 server platform.

So it looks like there's a whole conversation about this already in
this thread that I didn't notice.  However, reading through all of it,
I still don't understand sure why the presence of ACPI tables is
insufficient to enable ACPI.  In what situation would we want to
ignore ACPI tables that are present?

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