Re: [PATCH v5 03/17] ACPI: bus: Add acpi_riscv_init function

Sunil V L
2024-05-02T11:01:11Z

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:19:55PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:12:43AM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 03:32:25PM +0530, Sunil V L wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 12:24:14PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 05:47:28PM +0530, Sunil V L wrote:
> > > > > Add a new function for RISC-V to do any architecture specific
> > > > > initialization. This function will be used to create platform devices
> > > > > like APLIC, PLIC, RISC-V IOMMU etc. This is similar to acpi_arm_init().
> > > >
> > > > What is the special about this architecture that it requires a separate
> > > > initialization that is _not_ going to be in other cases?
> > > > Please, elaborate.
> > > >
> > > This init function will be used to create GSI mapping structures and in
> > > future may be others like iommu. Like I mentioned, ARM already has
> > > similar function acpi_arm_init(). So, it is not new right?
> >
> > Just to add:
> >
> > This is to initialise everything around all the arch specific tables
> > which you will not have on any other architectures. We could execute
> > on all architectures but the tables will never be found. The main point
> > is why do we want to do that if we can optimise and skip on all other
> > archs.
>
> You need to carefully write the commit messages. Some kind of the above
> paragraphs has to be in there.
>
Sure, let me update the commit message on similar lines.

Thanks,
Sunil