On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:34:15PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 07:14:18PM +0800, John Garry wrote: > > The ACPI PPTT ID structure (see 6.2 spec, section 5.2.29.3) allows the > > vendor to provide an identifier (or vendor specific part number) for a > > particular processor hierarchy node structure. That may be a processor > > identifier for a processor node, or some chip identifier for a processor > > package node. > > > > Unfortunately, there were plans to deprecate this in favour of the new > SOC_ID SMCCC API[1]. I am not sure if you or anyone in your company have > access to UEFI ASWG mantis where you can look for the ECR for the PPTT > Type 2 deprecation. I understand it's not ideal, but we need to converge, > please take a look at both before further discussion. > > I personally would not prefer to add the support when I know it is getting > deprecated. I am not sure on kernel community policy on the same. > OK, the details on the proposal to deprecate can be now found in UEFI bugzilla [1] -- Regards, Sudeep [1] https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2492
