Hi Andrew, On 20:26 Sun 24 Nov , Andrew Lunn wrote: > > This patchset is also a first attempt to be more agnostic wrt hardware > > description standards such as OF devicetree and ACPI, where 'agnostic' > > means "using DT in coexistence with ACPI", as been already promoted > > by e.g. AL (see [4]). Although there's currently no evidence it will also > > run out of the box on purely ACPI system, it is a first step towards > > that direction. > > When combined with CONFIG_PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES and this patch series: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pci/cover/20241114165446.611458-1-herve.codina@xxxxxxxxxxx/ That's great. I'll do some tests as soon as I can start my rpi5 from ACPI, I saw there has been some experimentation about it and should be feasible to run it succesfuly. > > It probably does work, or is very near to working. Bootlin appear to > have the LAN966x working on an ACPI system, and what you are adding is > not very different. > > I'm also currently playing around in this area, trying to instantiate > some complex networking hardware using DT overlays on an ACPI system. Nice! Cheers, Andrea > > Andrew
