From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:57:50 +0000 Subject: [patch v11 08/23] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce early_param "acpi=" to enable/disable ACPI In-Reply-To: <1427205776-5060-9-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> References: <1427205776-5060-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <1427205776-5060-9-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20150325165750.GF14585@localhost> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:02:41PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > From: Al Stone > > This implements the following policy to decide whether ACPI should > be used to boot the system: > - acpi=off: ACPI will not be used to boot the system, even if there is > no alternative available (e.g., device tree is empty) > - acpi=force: only ACPI will be used to boot the system; if that fails, > there will be no fallback to alternative methods (such as device tree) > - otherwise, ACPI will be used as a fallback if the device tree turns out > to lack a platform description; the heuristic to decide this is whether > /chosen is the only node present at depth 1 > > CC: Catalin Marinas > CC: Will Deacon > CC: Rafael J. Wysocki > Acked-by: Olof Johansson > Acked-by: Grant Likely > Tested-by: Timur Tabi > Signed-off-by: Al Stone > Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory > Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Catalin Marinas But we should also merge Lorenzo's patch which gets read of the forced param (on top of this series, I really think we should stop rebasing at this point). -- Catalin