This patch set enables custom ACPI board configuration by adding mechanisms in the Linux kernel for loading user defined SSDTs. In order to support ACPI open-ended hardware configurations we need a way to augment the ACPI configuration provided by the firmware image. A common example is connecting sensors on I2C / SPI buses on development boards. Although this can be accomplished by creating a kernel platform driver or recompiling the firmware image with updated ACPI tables, neither is practical: the former proliferates board specific kernel code while the latter requires access to firmware tools which are often not publicly available. Because ACPI supports external references in AML code a more practical way to augment firmware ACPI configuration is by dynamically loading user defined SSDT tables that contain the board specific information. This patch sets provides three methods for loading custom SSDTs: * From an EFI variable This is the preferred method, when EFI is supported on the platform, because it allows a persistent, OS independent way of storing and updating the user defined SSDTs. There is also work underway to implement EFI support for loading user defined SSDTs and using this method will make it easier to convert to the EFI loading mechanism when that will arrive. * From the first uncompressed initrd (similar with the override functionality) This is useful when EFI is not supported on the platform and when it is not possible to defer the loading to userspace. * From userspace via configfs This is useful when we want to defer the operation to userspace for platform detection, loading the SSDTs from a custom partition, etc. Octavian Purdila (10): kernel: add TAINT_OVERLAY_ACPI_TABLE acpi: install SSDT tables from initrd acpi: add support for ACPI reconfiguration notifiers acpi: fix enumeration (visited) flags for bus rescans i2c: add support for ACPI reconfigure notifications spi: add support for ACPI reconfigure notifications efi: load SSTDs from EFI variables configfs: fix CONFIGFS_BIN_ATTR_[RW]O definitions acpi: add support for configfs acpi: add support for loading SSDTs via configfs Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-acpi | 23 +++++ Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt | 174 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++ Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 2 + Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 1 + MAINTAINERS | 1 + drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 9 ++ drivers/acpi/Makefile | 1 + drivers/acpi/bus.c | 72 +++++++++++++ drivers/acpi/configfs.c | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/acpi/internal.h | 3 + drivers/acpi/scan.c | 73 +++++++++++++- drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 6 +- drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 38 ++++++- drivers/spi/spi.c | 36 ++++++- include/acpi/acpi_bus.h | 8 ++ include/linux/configfs.h | 4 +- include/linux/kernel.h | 1 + kernel/panic.c | 2 + 20 files changed, 699 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-acpi create mode 100644 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/configfs.c -- 1.9.1 -- 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
