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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] ACPI in general
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 21:58:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161006015809.GK4884@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57F5AD87.6060504@codeaurora.org>

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 08:48:55PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
> >Well, I wouldn't phrase it quite like that.  I would ask, do we want to
> >go down this path?  How far down would we want to go, if so?
> 
> ACPI is pretty complicated, more so than DT.  UEFI is also open
> source.  I think you need to find a very compelling reason to
> reinvent the wheel.

Yes.  But in brief, we also don't go fully down the ACPI path for x86.
But we can do "something".

I assume you mean EDK II when you say UEFI is open source, and yes
that's true.  But I've said in other places (and other contexts) choices
make all projects stronger.

> ACPI on ARM is reserved for ARM Servers, which is a small market (in
> term of number of units) compared to all other ARM chips.

I think that takes too narrow of a view.  If silicon is sold, someone
will put it somewhere.  And if there's firmware that works, and the
buyer can modify to suit their design, they'll use it.

-- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-06  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04 16:38 [U-Boot] ACPI in general york sun
2016-10-05  5:22 ` Bin Meng
2016-10-05 14:46 ` Simon Glass
2016-10-05 14:55   ` york sun
2016-10-05 23:15   ` Timur Tabi
2016-10-05 23:33     ` york sun
2016-10-06  1:45       ` Tom Rini
2016-10-06  1:48         ` Timur Tabi
2016-10-06  1:58           ` Tom Rini [this message]
2016-10-06 11:50             ` Timur Tabi
2016-10-06 12:50               ` Bin Meng
2016-10-06 13:01                 ` Timur Tabi
2016-10-06 19:57                   ` Olof Johansson

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