From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 09/21] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce early_param "acpi=" to enable/disable ACPI Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:11:31 -0800 Message-ID: <20150305181131.GC4932@quad.lixom.net> References: <1424853601-6675-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <1424853601-6675-10-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:41505 "EHLO mail-pa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753899AbbCESLZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 13:11:25 -0500 Received: by pablj1 with SMTP id lj1so38282785pab.8 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:11:24 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1424853601-6675-10-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Hanjun Guo Cc: Catalin Marinas , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Will Deacon , Grant Likely , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Arnd Bergmann , Mark Rutland , Graeme Gregory , Sudeep Holla , Jon Masters , Marc Zyngier , Mark Brown , Robert Richter , Timur Tabi , Ashwin Chaugule , suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org, Al Stone , Ard Biesheuvel On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:39:49PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > From: Al Stone > > This implements the following policy to decide whether ACPI should > be used to boot the system: > - acpi=off: ACPI will not be used to boot the system, even if there is > no alternative available (e.g., device tree is empty) > - acpi=force: only ACPI will be used to boot the system; if that fails, > there will be no fallback to alternative methods (such as device tree) > - otherwise, ACPI will be used as a fallback if the device tree turns out > to lack a platform description; the heuristic to decide this is whether > /chosen is the only node present at depth 1 > > CC: Catalin Marinas > CC: Will Deacon > CC: Rafael J. Wysocki > Signed-off-by: Al Stone > Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory > Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Olof Johansson -Olof