Re: [PATCH] ACPI: implement UUID-labelled vendor-defined resources

[Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>]

On Monday 19 September 2005 9:31 am, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > BTW, Please explain in more detail what support is needed in ACPICA for
> > the ACPI 3.0 vendor-defined resource.  Also, any idea how we are
> > supposed to determine if the UUID data exists within the descriptor?
> > (i.e., how do we differentiate an ACPI 2.0 vendor descriptor from an
> > ACPI 3.0 descriptor?)
> 
> There's no mark that distinguishes 2.0 and 3.0 vendor descriptors.
> As far as I can tell, a 3.0 descriptor (that contains a UUID and
> sub-type) is also a perfectly valid 2.0 descriptor.
> 
> ACPI 3.0 "strongs recommends," but apparently doesn't actually
> require a UUID, so a 2.0 vendor descriptor should also be a valid
> 3.0 descriptor.
> 
> The idea is that we just look through all the vendor descriptors
> for the supplied UUID.  If we find one, we return the information.
> There's a small possibility that an ACPI 2.0, non-UUID-labelled
> descriptor will contain data that happens to match the random
> 16-byte UUID, and we'll return it by mistake.  But that possibility
> is pretty remote, I think.

Ping...  Did this make any sense, or did I answer the wrong questions?


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