From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:54:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY
 driver binding documentation
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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