From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: One Thousand Gnomes Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi/pxa2xx-pci: Enable DMA binding through device name Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:45:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20140725224514.10f13885@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> References: <1406196111-22861-1-git-send-email-hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> <5426556.OzZIXLrofJ@wuerfel> <1406285147.8530.13.camel@smile.fi.intel.com> <5237362.DJsH7MtqlU@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andy Shevchenko , Mika Westerberg , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, Kweh Hock Leong , Eric Miao , Russell King , Haojian Zhuang , Mark Brown , Chew Chiau Ee , Darren Hart , chiauee85-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-spi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Arnd Bergmann Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5237362.DJsH7MtqlU@wuerfel> Sender: linux-spi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: > The current plan I think is to convert all platforms to use DT > or ACPI so they get the right data from tables passed by the > platform. I'm a bit puzzled about why Intel wants to support the > non-ACPI non-DT case again. If we have to support this case anyway, > what good will ACPI do us on those platforms? Because some industries move very very slowly so still don't believe in requiring ACPI or ACPI capable operating systems. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html