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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	"hanjun.guo@linaro.org" <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ahs3@redhat.com" <ahs3@redhat.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] ACPI / containers : add support for ACPI0010 processor container
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 16:32:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554CD711.3090903@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2334052.J3vzukF2MM@vostro.rjw.lan>



On 08/05/15 15:06, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, May 08, 2015 04:50:10 PM Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> Hi Sudeep,
>>
>> On 2015年05月06日 22:31, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>> ACPI 6.0 adds support for optional processor container device which may
>>> contain child objects that are either processor devices or other processor
>>> containers. This allows representing hierarchical processor topologies.
>>>
>>> It is declared using the _HID of ACPI0010. It may also have _CID of
>>> PNP0A05, which represents a generic container device.
>>
>> Container device helps support hotplug of nodes, CPUs, and memory,
>> does this container device ACPI0010 used for the same purpose?
>
> That's correct and the patch isn't.
>

Thanks Rafael for the clarification.

Just curious if the firmware adds _CID of PNP0A05 to support OS that
don't parse processor containers, will the current code not create
containers using _CID ?

Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-08 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-06 14:31 [PATCH RFC 0/5] ACPI / core : few cleanups and updates for LPI Sudeep Holla
2015-05-06 14:31 ` [PATCH RFC 1/5] ACPI / containers : add support for ACPI0010 processor container Sudeep Holla
2015-05-08  8:50   ` Hanjun Guo
2015-05-08 14:06     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-05-08 15:32       ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2015-05-08 20:33         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-05-06 14:31 ` [PATCH RFC 2/5] ACPI / processor: always compile perflib if CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR Sudeep Holla
2015-05-06 18:36   ` Ashwin Chaugule
2015-05-08  8:52     ` Hanjun Guo
2015-05-08 10:06       ` Sudeep Holla
2015-05-06 14:31 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] ACPI / sleep: move acpi_processor_sleep to sleep.c Sudeep Holla
2015-05-06 14:31 ` [PATCH RFC 4/5] ACPI / processor_idle: replace PREFIX with pr_fmt Sudeep Holla
2015-05-06 14:31 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] ACPI / processor_idle : introduce ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI_PROCESSOR_CSTATE Sudeep Holla

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