From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752774AbbCZBGW (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:06:22 -0400 Received: from eu-smtp-delivery-143.mimecast.com ([207.82.80.143]:23330 "EHLO eu-smtp-delivery-143.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752400AbbCZBDS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:03:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:57:50 +0000 From: Catalin Marinas To: Hanjun Guo Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Will Deacon , Olof Johansson , Grant Likely , Mark Rutland , Ashwin Chaugule , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Robert Richter , Arnd Bergmann , Graeme Gregory , linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org, Marc Zyngier , Jon Masters , Timur Tabi , Mark Salter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Stone , Ard Biesheuvel , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown , Suravee Suthikulpanit , Sudeep Holla , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [patch v11 08/23] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce early_param "acpi=" to enable/disable ACPI Message-ID: <20150325165750.GF14585@localhost> References: <1427205776-5060-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <1427205776-5060-9-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1427205776-5060-9-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Mar 2015 00:56:49.0560 (UTC) FILETIME=[BDAE1180:01D0675F] X-MC-Unique: 4p4q6UqwRyWo0vkTUioZ_g-3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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