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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY driver binding documentation
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:54:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201311152054.10859.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPw-ZTnyknFs2S5uZOH7RyAqcQrk7z=Ms0QfRGd-kQfYsw4+wQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 15 November 2013, Loc Ho wrote:
> It may be possible from ACPI point of view (hasn't tried yet). But for
> DTS, there is no such firmware.

Why not? Doesn't any boot loader have to initialize the hardware in order
to load a kernel from disk?

> I will make the entry more friendly
> for DTS. For ACPI, I am thinking that the BIOS/Firmware will just
> initialize it. As long as the clock isn't reset, the value will be
> there. Let's agree on these:
> 
> 1. DTS - use more friendly name
> 2. ACPI - handled by the BIOS/Firmware

Make sense.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-15 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-14 19:31 [PATCH 0/3] ata: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY support Loc Ho
2013-11-14 19:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY driver binding documentation Loc Ho
2013-11-14 19:31   ` [PATCH 2/3] ata: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY driver Loc Ho
2013-11-14 19:31     ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY DTS entries Loc Ho
2013-11-15 12:46     ` [PATCH 2/3] ata: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY driver Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-15 16:14       ` Loc Ho
2013-11-15 12:35   ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY driver binding documentation Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-15 12:52     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-15 16:22     ` Loc Ho
2013-11-15 19:26       ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-15 19:33         ` Loc Ho
2013-11-15 19:54           ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-11-15 20:00             ` Loc Ho
2013-11-15 20:19               ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-15 20:52                 ` Loc Ho
2013-11-15 12:31 ` [PATCH 0/3] ata: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY support Arnd Bergmann

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