On Tuesday, August 04, 2015 06:05:50 PM Hanjun Guo wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On 08/04/2015 12:35 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is the current ACPI linux subsystem, that you find in the official Linus tree, > > compliant (even partially) with ACPI 6 ? (which was released in April 2015) > > > > or is it now compliant only with ACPI 5 ? > > ACPI 6 have lots of new features, such as add support for NVDIMM > (persistent memory), hierarchical lower-power idle states of CPUs, CPU > clusters, and some support for ARM platforms (GIC, SMMU and etc.), > and more... > > so what the specific features are you referring to? > > > > > What are the plans for ACPI 6? Is there already some git branch for it ? > > For all the ACPI 6 new features, ACPICA already add its support in 4.2, > and some of the ACPI driver support also is ready, such as support for > persistent memory [1] is ready, and Linaro is leading the ACPI 6.0 for > ARM support, but as far as I can know, some of ACPI 6.0 features are > still under development at now. > > I think the main support for ACPI 6.0 is in Rafael's tree: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git > > [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/640891/ Right. The question should not be "Is it compliant?", though. It rather should be "Is new ACPI 6 material covered?". The majority of ACPI 6 is the same as ACPI 5, of course. Thanks, Rafael -- 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
