Re: [PATCH v5 03/17] ACPI: bus: Add acpi_riscv_init function

Sunil V L
2024-05-02T10:02:40Z

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 12:24:14PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 05:47:28PM +0530, Sunil V L wrote:
> > Add a new function for RISC-V to do any architecture specific
> > initialization. This function will be used to create platform devices
> > like APLIC, PLIC, RISC-V IOMMU etc. This is similar to acpi_arm_init().
>
> What is the special about this architecture that it requires a separate
> initialization that is _not_ going to be in other cases?
> Please, elaborate.
>
This init function will be used to create GSI mapping structures and in
future may be others like iommu. Like I mentioned, ARM already has
similar function acpi_arm_init(). So, it is not new right?

Thanks,
Sunil