From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:34:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v3 13/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support In-Reply-To: <5405AE95.1020201@linaro.org> References: <1409583475-6978-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <1409583475-6978-14-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <5404AE56.80801@arm.com> <5405AE95.1020201@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20140902163414.GJ27056@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 12:48:37PM +0100, Tomasz Nowicki wrote: > On 01.09.2014 19:35, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > On 01/09/14 15:57, Hanjun Guo wrote: > >> From: Tomasz Nowicki > >> > >> ACPI kernel uses MADT table for proper GIC initialization. It needs to > >> parse GIC related subtables, collect CPU interface and distributor > >> addresses and call driver initialization function (which is hardware > >> abstraction agnostic). In a similar way, FDT initialize GICv1/2. > >> > >> NOTE: This commit allow to initialize GICv1/2 only. > > > > I cannot help but notice that there is no support for KVM here. It'd be > > good to add a note to that effect, so that people do not expect > > virtualization support to be working when booting with ACPI. > > yes, it is worth mentioning! It's also worth mentioning if there are any plans to fix this ;). -- Catalin