From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: ACPI vs Device Tree - moving forward
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:39:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130821233942.GA21502@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6438184.2yT2NMB1CE@vostro.rjw.lan>
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:11:14AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Moreover, even if we are able to instruct everyone interested how to create
> the requisite ACPI tables, there is the little problem of shipping them
> somehow so that they actually can be used by the kernel that needs to be
> addressed too.
I think the expectation in the ACPI ecosystem has to be that devices
ship their own ACPI tables. I can't see any benefit in using ACPI if the
aim is to just carry on shipping files with the kernel or install media
- in that case, just use DT.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-21 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-20 19:26 ACPI vs Device Tree - moving forward Matthew Garrett
2013-08-20 20:51 ` Darren Hart
2013-08-20 20:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-20 21:03 ` Darren Hart
2013-08-20 21:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-20 21:36 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-20 21:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-20 23:29 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-21 15:57 ` Linus Walleij
2013-08-21 16:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-21 23:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-21 23:39 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-08-22 0:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-22 0:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-23 23:25 ` Darren Hart
2013-08-23 23:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-23 23:45 ` Darren Hart
2013-08-24 0:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-24 1:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-24 1:47 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-24 2:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-24 2:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-24 3:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-24 4:45 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-24 4:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-24 5:30 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-26 9:32 ` Linus Walleij
2013-08-26 10:48 ` Graeme Gregory
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