Re: [PATCH v4 14/18] ARM64 / ACPI: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support

Jon Masters
2014-09-12T19:49:37Z

On 09/12/2014 10:00 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>
>
> ACPI kernel uses MADT table for proper GIC initialization. It needs to
> parse GIC related subtables, collect CPU interface and distributor
> addresses and call driver initialization function (which is hardware
> abstraction agnostic). In a similar way, FDT initialize GICv1/2.
>
> NOTE: This commit allow to initialize GICv1/2 basic functionality.
> GICv2 vitalization extension, GICv3/4 and ITS are considered as next
> steps.

Aside: A request to specifically update the flags in ACPI to indicate
GICv3/v4 systems has been filed for a future spec revision.

Jon.