From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:10:32 +0100 Subject: ACPI vs DT at runtime In-Reply-To: <20131118150455.GD24408@sirena.org.uk> References: <3371903.8j54vrCjEN@wuerfel> <20131118150455.GD24408@sirena.org.uk> Message-ID: <201311181610.33105.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Monday 18 November 2013, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 07:10:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Sunday 17 November 2013 17:18:03 Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > > Simply using DT would help avoiding the awkward situation where a driver > > > of a device only works with one of the two description formats and not > > > the other. > > > Yes, but remember that Intel still have the problem on their embedded > > systems, and will want to solve them. > > Has it been confirmed that Intel are going with ACPI for their embedded > devices rather than SFI? That would be nice given how awful SFI is and > I have heard that before but I'm not sure I've seen anything official. Possibly not all of Intel agrees to that, but I think that's what I've heard from Darrent Hart and David Woodhouse. I doubt you can get an "official" confirmation about it. I also don't know if there is a follow-up for the Intel CE4100 that started using DT[1]. Arnd [1] arch/x86/platform/ce4100/falconfalls.dts From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: ACPI vs DT at runtime Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:10:32 +0100 Message-ID: <201311181610.33105.arnd@arndb.de> References: <3371903.8j54vrCjEN@wuerfel> <20131118150455.GD24408@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20131118150455.GD24408@sirena.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Mark Brown Cc: Olof Johansson , Grant Likely , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Monday 18 November 2013, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 07:10:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Sunday 17 November 2013 17:18:03 Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > > Simply using DT would help avoiding the awkward situation where a driver > > > of a device only works with one of the two description formats and not > > > the other. > > > Yes, but remember that Intel still have the problem on their embedded > > systems, and will want to solve them. > > Has it been confirmed that Intel are going with ACPI for their embedded > devices rather than SFI? That would be nice given how awful SFI is and > I have heard that before but I'm not sure I've seen anything official. Possibly not all of Intel agrees to that, but I think that's what I've heard from Darrent Hart and David Woodhouse. I doubt you can get an "official" confirmation about it. I also don't know if there is a follow-up for the Intel CE4100 that started using DT[1]. Arnd [1] arch/x86/platform/ce4100/falconfalls.dts