On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:22:49 +0000
Jeremy Linton <jeremy.lin...@arm.com> wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
> Marc,
>
> |FWIW, mainline booting with this patch on Juno r1 with ACPI enabled dies a
> |horrible death:
>
> Sorry about the delay, I didn't see this message.
>
> <trimmed>
>
> |How did you get this to work? Firmware release?
>
> Yes, it's a firmware problem with the ACPI tables. It is likely you
> need _DSD changes for the SMSC. If your trying to run juno with ACPI
> there are a few other ACPI table changes you will need beyond what
> was in the last linaro release. I wanted to just provide a direct
> link to the correct firmware in this response, but it seems the
> required version is sort of up in the air at the moment. Be assured I
> will really push on this next week, and will provide a follow up here.
Good. Please keep me posted on this. I understand this is still a work
in progress, and it would be good to document what is the expected
baseline for this to work correctly.
> Originally, the lack of DSD wasn't a problem, but as this patch
> evolved the fact that it consolidates a number of configuration code
> paths balancing that got tricky, and ACPI machines with "bad" tables
> were the victims (rather than breaking something I can't control).
>
> In the meantime, if this is blocking anyone I can provide
> instructions on how to update the required ACPI tables.
Thanks,
M.
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