Re: [PATCH v6 2/7] ACPI: Make ACPI processor driver more extensible

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>]

Hi,

On 08/07/15 21:28, Ashwin Chaugule wrote:
> On 8 July 2015 at 16:05, Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 8 July 2015 at 15:55, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Ashwin,

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>>>
>>> Can you please just send the new version of the $subject patch alone for now?
>>
>> Attached below. (hope that worked.)
>>
>>>
>>> Also I'm still unsure what the connection between _CST and CPPC is.
>>>
>>
>> There isnt. But I'm missing where I've implied the dependency?
>
> Perhaps the confusion is coming from the introduction of ACPI_CST in
> this file. I could leave it as it is and just separate out the
> ACPI_PSS bits. But I figured, while I'm at it, I'd introduce ACPI_CST,
> since we know the LPI stuff is coming up soon as a CST alternative
> anyway. So if you prefer, I can drop the CST bits and maybe Sudeep can
> address that as part of his LPI patchset?
>

Correct, I will handle it as a prerequisite for introducing _LPI
support. I had posted an RFC long back, will revive those patches and
repost them soon.

It's better to enable ACPI_PROCESSOR on ARM64 only after we have all
these dependencies resolved. Until then we need to carry some patches
locally for testing.

Regards,
Sudeep