On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 15:13 +0000, Moore, Robert wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Toshi Kani [mailto:toshi.kani@xxxxxxx] > > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 1:55 PM > > To: rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Williams, Dan J > > Cc: Moore, Robert; Zheng, Lv; elliott@xxxxxxx; linux-nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxx > > g; > > linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > devel@xxxxxxxxxx; Toshi Kani > > Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] ACPI/NFIT: Update Control Region Structure to > > comply ACPI 6.1 > > > > ACPI 6.1, Table 5-133, updates NVDIMM Control Region Structure as > > follows. > > - Valid Fields, Manufacturing Location, and Manufacturing Date > > are added from reserved range. No change in the structure size. > > - IDs defined as SPD values are arrays of bytes. The spec > > clarified that they need to be represented as arrays of bytes > > as well. > > > > This patch makes the following changes to support this update. > > - Change 'struct acpi_nfit_control_region' to reflect the update. > > SPD IDs are defined as arrays of bytes, so that they can be > > treated in the same way regardless of CPU endianness and are > > not miss-treated as little-endian numeric values. > > > I don't think we are going to start changing the ACPI tables defined in > the ACPICA headers because of this. We do in fact have macros for this > purpose. Can you elaborate what macros you suggest to use for this purpose? Thanks, -Toshi -- 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
