Re: [PATCH v6 2/7] ACPI: Make ACPI processor driver more extensible

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On Wednesday, July 08, 2015 05:46:45 PM Ashwin Chaugule wrote:
> On 8 July 2015 at 16:46, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Ashwin,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Ashwin Chaugule
> > <ashwin.chaugule@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 8 July 2015 at 16:05, Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On 8 July 2015 at 15:55, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Ashwin,
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Ashwin Chaugule
> >>>> <ashwin.chaugule@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Rafael,
> >>>>>
> >
> > [cut]
> >
> >>>>
> >>>> Also I'm still unsure what the connection between _CST and CPPC is.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> There isnt. But I'm missing where I've implied the dependency?
> >>
> >> Perhaps the confusion is coming from the introduction of ACPI_CST in
> >> this file. I could leave it as it is and just separate out the
> >> ACPI_PSS bits. But I figured, while I'm at it, I'd introduce ACPI_CST,
> >> since we know the LPI stuff is coming up soon as a CST alternative
> >> anyway. So if you prefer, I can drop the CST bits and maybe Sudeep can
> >> address that as part of his LPI patchset?
> >
> > Yes, please.  That would be much less confusing.
> 
> Deja Vu. :)
> 
> When I let processor_driver and processor_idle compile on ARM64, I get
> a bunch of errors because processor_idle.c contains a lot of X86
> specific defines. That is why I'd created the ACPI_CST option which
> we'd enable only on X86.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what these enums and functions should default
> to, or what they should be on ARM specifically. Given that on ARM64
> we're likely to use LPI as against CST, it seems the original approach
> is better. Thoughts?

Before we go anywhere deeper, have you checked what happens on ia64?

Rafael

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