Re: [RFC part1 PATCH 0/7] Make ACPI core running on ARM64

2013-12-10 Thread Linus Walleij
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I'd agree as soon as someone can convince me that we actually want ACPI > support in the kernel for ARM64 servers. As far as I'm concerned it's quite > possible that the people who have worked on this for the past couple of > years behind clo

Re: [RFC part1 PATCH 0/7] Make ACPI core running on ARM64

2013-12-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 03:44:56AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 06 December 2013, Mark Brown wrote: > > OTOH if it's well encapsulated, is going to be required for any kind of > > ACPI use and gets to the point where people are OK with it by itself > > then I'm not sure what we'd gain b

Re: [RFC part1 PATCH 0/7] Make ACPI core running on ARM64

2013-12-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 06 December 2013, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:25:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > However, as I mentioned before I am much more worried about the parts that > > are not done (or not posted) yet and that will be required to actually > > have working support for a

Re: [RFC part1 PATCH 0/7] Make ACPI core running on ARM64

2013-12-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:25:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > However, as I mentioned before I am much more worried about the parts that > are not done (or not posted) yet and that will be required to actually > have working support for a real server system. Until we know more about > where thi

Re: [RFC part1 PATCH 0/7] Make ACPI core running on ARM64

2013-12-05 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 03 December 2013, Hanjun Guo wrote: > This is the first part of making ACPI core running on ARM. > > PCI is optional on ARM64 but ACPI is dependent on PCI now, so > in the first patch we try to make ACPI can be running without > PCI. > > _PDC is requred for ACPI processor_core.c, but i