From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hanjun.guo@linaro.org (Hanjun Guo) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:24:40 +0800 Subject: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v2 06/18] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT to map logical cpu to MPIDR and get cpu_possible/present_map In-Reply-To: References: <1407166105-17675-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <1407166105-17675-7-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <53F24705.7080809@arm.com> <53F32E3C.1070102@linaro.org> Message-ID: <53F414F8.2030405@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 2014-8-20 0:46, Zi Shen Lim wrote: > Hanjun, Hi Lim, > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote: >> Will INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER confuse people? There is only one GIC redistributor >> (some people regard it as interrupt controller) in ARM system, if we use >> INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER people will regard it as multi-redistributors in the >> system, I think GIC_CPU_INTERFACE would be better, what do you think? > > I think you meant to say "one GIC _distributor_" (GICD) instead of > redistributor (GICR). > ACPI5.1 only describes one GICD per system, but we can most certainly > describe multiple GICRs. > For multi-cpu systems, you'll definitely see multiple GIC redistributors. Yes, you are right, thanks for pointing it out, I think I need more coffee :) Thanks Hanjun