On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I've read through this - looks good to me. I think it provides useful guidance to reference as we work on getting good ACPI support provided by various platforms under development. Reviewed-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxx> > > -- > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
