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From: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v7 04/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce early_param
 for "acpi" and pass acpi=force to enable ACPI
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:16:22 -0500
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On 01/29/2015 06:11 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> Sorry Jon but statements like this make me wonder whether we should
> simply let the whole ARM ACPI be an out of tree distro business. We
> spend a long time discussing OS-agnostic firmware implementation,
> planning mini-summits, just to get certain Linux distro representative
> stating that the kernel-firmware interface we discuss here only matters
> for those planning to follow upstream. Certain Linux distros will play
> by other rules.

Oh, don't take it that way - I just mean that if someone needs a
different ACPI always on, they can do that separately. I support your
position on upstream at this time! :)

Jon.