Hi All,
I'm currently thinking on how to integrate the ACPI support in u-boot
x86. I've investigated the coreboot implementation. My first thought was
to port all the source code over but looking at the source code in more
details it doesn't look like an easy option. For example, it involves
reading a lot of values over PCI to dynamically fill the tables, and
integration a lot of SoC specific headers (IRQ definition, GPIO, ...).
Therefore, as a first implementation I was thinking about the following:
- booting a board with the Intel UEFI + Linux
- extracting all the ACPI tables (/sys/firmware/acpi/ or acpixtract)
- disassembling the binaries tables via iasl to allow people to
modify them
- integrating these files into u-boot in board specific folder (for
example: board/intel/minnowmax/acpi/*)
- generating one blob per table using iasl during build time which
requires iasl tool to be installed if we have the CONFIG_ACPI
- writing at the RSDP location all the ACPI tables previously exported
With this flow, the integration would be quite simple. Also this allows
the tables to be modified easily when there is a new release or to add
some new devices to the DSDT.
What are your thoughts about that?
Feel free to provide some feedback on this implementation.
Thanks,
Regards,
Gabriel
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