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

Suravee Suthikulanit
2015-01-15T21:33:00Z

On 1/14/2015 9:04 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is the v7 of ACPI core patches for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1
>
> updates from v6:
> - Rebased on top of 3.19-rc4, add Mack Salter's patch to use
> the early_ioremap after paging_init() for ACPI table mappings;
>
> - Two patches about converting apic_id to phys_id to make it arch
> agnostic were already merged into RC4 by Rafael.
>
> - Split patch "Parse FADT table to get PSCI flags for PSCI init"
> into two as Lorenzo's suggestion, also fix typo and lack of __init
> for psci_0_2_set_functions() which is spotted by Lorenzo.
>
> - Add Tested-by from Yijing Wang.
>
> previous version is here:
> v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/4/40
>
> 1. Why we need ACPI on ARM64?
>
> - Grant already posted a blog about this, and stated clearly
> why we need ACPI on ARM64:
>
> http://www.secretlab.ca/archives/151
>
>
> 2. What we need to do before the arm64 ACPI core patches
> could be merged into the kernel?
>
> - Al Stone posted a TODO list and updates v2 for the
> progress we made:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg390069.html
>
> - so from the progress we can see that we already finished
> most of the items, and _OSI we got a plan to fix it, RFC
> patch is on the way.
>
>
> This patch set was tested on FVP by Fuwei, and booted ok as expected.
> (No functional change since last version)
>
> Thanks
> Hanjun
>

The V7 patch series has also been re-tested on AMD Seattle server
platform along with the "Introduce ACPI support for ahci_platform
driver" patch series here (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/5/662).

Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>

Thanks,

Suravee