From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>,
Elliott@hp.com, samer.el-haj-mahmoud@hp.com,
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>,
werner@suse.com, trenn@suse.de, JBeulich@suse.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
x86@kernel.org,
"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:43:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B4BA0A.1030902@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2787644.ytU7M33B4r@vostro.rjw.lan>
On 12/20/2013 01:45 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> My understanding, however, is that to use the TAD, we don't actually need to
> create a struct acpi_device for it. We just need a handle to the ACPICA
> object which can be found using acpi_get_devices() as soon as the namespace
> has been extracted from the DSDT and friends. That in turn happens in
> acpi_early_init(), which is called from start_kernel() right before
> efi_late_init().
>
> Is that early enough?
>
Possibly... will have to investigate. I would also ask if the same
applies to the PNP0B0x devices -- all we really need there is the
presence/absence indication and the I/O port base.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-20 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-19 7:43 [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME Lee, Chun-Yi
2013-12-19 7:44 ` [PATCH 01/14] rtc-efi: fix decrease day twice when computing year days Lee, Chun-Yi
2013-12-19 7:44 ` [PATCH 03/14] rtc: block registration of rtc-cmos when CMOS RTC Not Present Lee, Chun-Yi
2013-12-19 14:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 3:54 ` joeyli
2013-12-20 4:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-19 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-19 16:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
2013-12-20 4:05 ` joeyli
2013-12-20 4:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 5:38 ` joeyli
2013-12-20 21:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 21:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-20 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-12-20 21:50 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-20 22:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-21 12:21 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-12 0:30 ` [RFT][PATCH] ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode() (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME) Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-12 9:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 2:04 ` Toshi Kani
2014-01-14 16:25 ` Toshi Kani
2014-01-12 11:05 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-17 12:20 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-14 4:09 ` joeyli
2014-01-14 16:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-14 18:00 ` [RFT][PATCH] ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode() H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 20:32 ` Toshi Kani
2014-01-15 7:18 ` joeyli
2013-12-21 2:43 ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME joeyli
2013-12-20 10:53 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-12-20 22:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 15:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 16:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 16:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 20:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2013-12-19 7:51 Lee, Chun-Yi
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