On 04/25/2016 03:21 PM, Al Stone wrote: > The ACPI 6.1 specification was recently released at the end of January > 2016, but the arm64 kernel documentation for the use of ACPI was written > for the 5.1 version of the spec. There were significant additions to the > spec that had not yet been mentioned -- for example, the 6.0 mechanisms > added to make it easier to define processors and low power idle states, > as well as the 6.1 addition allowing regular interrupts (not just from > GPIO) be used to signal ACPI general purpose events. > > This patch reflects going back through and examining the specs in detail > and updating content appropriately. Whilst there, a few odds and ends of > typos were caught as well. This brings the documentation up to date with > ACPI 6.1 for arm64. > > Changes for v5: > -- Miscellaneous typos and corrections (Lorenzo Pieralisi) > -- Add linux-acpi@ ML to the distribution list (Alexey Klimov) > -- Corrections to CPPC information (Alexey Klimov) > -- ACK from Lorenzo Pieralisi > -- Updated bibliographic info (Al Stone) > > Changes for v4: > -- Clarify that IORT can sometimes be optional (Jon Masters). > -- Remove "Use as needed" descriptions of ACPI objects; they provide > no substantive information and doing so simplifies maintenance of > this document over time. These have been replaced with a simpler > notice that states that unless otherwise noted, do what the ACPI > specification says is needed. > -- Corrected the _OSI object usage recommendation; it described kernel > behavior that does not exist (Al Stone). > > Changes for v3: > -- Clarify use of _LPI/_RDI (Vikas Sajjan) > -- Whitespace cleanup as pointed out by checkpatch > > Changes for v2: > -- Clean up white space (Harb Abdulhahmid) > -- Clarification on _CCA usage (Harb Abdulhamid) > -- IORT moved to required from recommended (Hanjun Guo) > -- Clarify IORT description (Hanjun Guo) > > > Al Stone (1): > ARM64: ACPI: Update documentation for latest specification version > > Documentation/arm64/acpi_object_usage.txt | 343 ++++++++++++++++-------------- > Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt | 40 ++-- > 2 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-) > Ping? If there are no further comments, can this be pulled in through either the documentation or arm64 tree? Thanks. -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------- -- 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
