From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] ACPI: ARM64 does not have a BIOS add config for BIOS table scan.
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:49:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C70F78.40206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F3285FB3C@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com>
On 07/16/2014 04:46 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> + select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI
>
>> This shouldn't actually be set on IA64, should it? IA64 doesn't have
>> BIOS, either, it has EFI/UEFI, like ARM64...
>
> Which ACPI tables are in the "LEGACY" category affected by this option?
>
That's not what this is about... it is about how you find the root pointer.
On a BIOS system it is found by scanning low memory. On an EFI system
it is found by querying EFI for a specific UUID.
-hpa
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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] ACPI: ARM64 does not have a BIOS add config for BIOS table scan.
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:49:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C70F78.40206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F3285FB3C@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com>
On 07/16/2014 04:46 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> + select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI
>
>> This shouldn't actually be set on IA64, should it? IA64 doesn't have
>> BIOS, either, it has EFI/UEFI, like ARM64...
>
> Which ACPI tables are in the "LEGACY" category affected by this option?
>
That's not what this is about... it is about how you find the root pointer.
On a BIOS system it is found by scanning low memory. On an EFI system
it is found by querying EFI for a specific UUID.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-16 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-09 9:39 [PATCH v2 0/3] Clean up ACPI core to prepare for running ACPI on ARM64 Hanjun Guo
2014-07-09 9:39 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-07-09 9:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] ACPI: ARM64 does not have a BIOS add config for BIOS table scan Hanjun Guo
2014-07-09 9:39 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-07-16 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-16 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-16 23:46 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-16 23:46 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-16 23:46 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-16 23:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-07-16 23:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-17 3:18 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-07-17 3:18 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-07-17 16:58 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-17 16:58 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-17 16:58 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-18 9:22 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-07-18 9:22 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-07-09 9:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] ACPI: Don't use acpi_lapic in ACPI core code Hanjun Guo
2014-07-09 9:39 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-07-09 9:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ACPI / processor: Introduce ARCH_HAS_ACPI_PDC Hanjun Guo
2014-07-09 9:39 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-07-16 23:32 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Clean up ACPI core to prepare for running ACPI on ARM64 Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-07-16 23:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-07-16 23:28 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-16 23:28 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-16 23:28 ` Luck, Tony
2014-07-16 23:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-16 23:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
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