[PATCH v7 00/17] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1

Catalin Marinas
2015-01-16T10:20:36Z

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:31:53PM +0000, Al Stone wrote:
> On 01/15/2015 11:23 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:26:20PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>> This is the v7 of ACPI core patches for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1
> >>
> >> I'll get right to the point: Can we please have this series queued up
> >> for v3.20?
> > [snip ... ]
>
> >> 5. Platform support patches need verification and review
> >> * ACPI core works on at least the Foundation model, Juno, APM
> >> Mustang, and AMD Seattle
> >> * There still are driver patches being discussed. See Al's summary
> >> for details
> >> * As I argued above, the state of driver patches isn't going to be
> >
> > We are still lacking here. To quote Al, "First version for AMD Seattle
> > has been posted to the public linaro-acpi mailing list for initial
> > review". Sorry but I don't follow linaro-acpi list. I don't know what's
> > in those patches and I can't tell which subsystems they touch, whether
> > maintainers agree with them. So in conclusion, I'm not confident the
> > arm64 hardware ACPI story looks that great yet.
> >
>
> This is solely my fault -- too much time on processes, email, and
> documentation, not enough time on the Seattle patches. And not
> enough Seattles to go around for someone else to pick up the slack.
>
> I am aware not everyone is subscribed to linaro-acpi; we use that
> for internal review before posting more broadly, which is the only
> reason I sent them there.
>
> I'm in the middle of updating them as I have time, based on really
> good feedback from Arnd; few of them are terribly new (the very first
> posting was [0]) -- it's mostly a matter of rebasing, integrating
> updates from AMD and others, and reacting to the comments. One can
> also see what these patches will probably look like via one of the
> Fedora kernel trees [1].

Do you have some simple branch against mainline with just the ACPI core
patches and what's required for AMD Seattle? I have no plans to dig
through the Fedora kernels.

--
Catalin