From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758080AbcDHO2N (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:28:13 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f175.google.com ([209.85.223.175]:35535 "EHLO mail-io0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753260AbcDHO2M (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:28:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ARM64: ACPI: Update documentation for latest specification version To: Will Deacon , ahs3@redhat.com References: <1459210002-3387-1-git-send-email-al.stone@linaro.org> <5706D63F.7050107@redhat.com> <20160408131208.GE23750@arm.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, Catalin Marinas , linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org From: Al Stone Message-ID: <5707BFF8.3030704@linaro.org> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 08:28:08 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160408131208.GE23750@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/08/2016 07:12 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:50:55PM -0600, Al Stone wrote: >> On 03/28/2016 06:06 PM, Al Stone wrote: >>> The ACPI 6.1 specification was recently released at the end of January >>> 2016, but the arm64 kernel documentation for the use of ACPI was written >>> for the 5.1 version of the spec. There were significant additions to the >>> spec that had not yet been mentioned -- for example, the 6.0 mechanisms >>> added to make it easier to define processors and low power idle states, >>> as well as the 6.1 addition allowing regular interrupts (not just from >>> GPIO) be used to signal ACPI general purpose events. >>> >>> This patch reflects going back through and examining the specs in detail >>> and updating content appropriately. Whilst there, a few odds and ends of >>> typos were caught as well. This brings the documentation up to date with >>> ACPI 6.1 for arm64. >>> >>> Changes for v3: >>> -- Clarify use of _LPI/_RDI (Vikas Sajjan) >>> -- Whitespace cleanup as pointed out by checkpatch >>> >>> Changes for v2: >>> -- Clean up white space (Harb Abdulhahmid) >>> -- Clarification on _CCA usage (Harb Abdulhamid) >>> -- IORT moved to required from recommended (Hanjun Guo) >>> -- Clarify IORT description (Hanjun Guo) >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Al Stone >>> Cc: Catalin Marinas >>> Cc: Will Deacon >>> Cc: Jonathan Corbet >>> --- >>> Documentation/arm64/acpi_object_usage.txt | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- >>> Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt | 28 +- >>> 2 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-) >>> [snip...] >> >> Ping? Any further comments or is this good to go? > > It would be nice to see an ack from some other ACPI people, if that's > possible. Which tree were you planning to merge this through? > > Will > Agreed. I was hoping the ping would elicit some of that. I assumed this would go through the arm64 tree since it's pretty specific to the architecture. -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Linaro Enterprise Group al.stone@linaro.org ----------------------------------- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: al.stone@linaro.org (Al Stone) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 08:28:08 -0600 Subject: [PATCH v3] ARM64: ACPI: Update documentation for latest specification version In-Reply-To: <20160408131208.GE23750@arm.com> References: <1459210002-3387-1-git-send-email-al.stone@linaro.org> <5706D63F.7050107@redhat.com> <20160408131208.GE23750@arm.com> Message-ID: <5707BFF8.3030704@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 04/08/2016 07:12 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:50:55PM -0600, Al Stone wrote: >> On 03/28/2016 06:06 PM, Al Stone wrote: >>> The ACPI 6.1 specification was recently released at the end of January >>> 2016, but the arm64 kernel documentation for the use of ACPI was written >>> for the 5.1 version of the spec. There were significant additions to the >>> spec that had not yet been mentioned -- for example, the 6.0 mechanisms >>> added to make it easier to define processors and low power idle states, >>> as well as the 6.1 addition allowing regular interrupts (not just from >>> GPIO) be used to signal ACPI general purpose events. >>> >>> This patch reflects going back through and examining the specs in detail >>> and updating content appropriately. Whilst there, a few odds and ends of >>> typos were caught as well. This brings the documentation up to date with >>> ACPI 6.1 for arm64. >>> >>> Changes for v3: >>> -- Clarify use of _LPI/_RDI (Vikas Sajjan) >>> -- Whitespace cleanup as pointed out by checkpatch >>> >>> Changes for v2: >>> -- Clean up white space (Harb Abdulhahmid) >>> -- Clarification on _CCA usage (Harb Abdulhamid) >>> -- IORT moved to required from recommended (Hanjun Guo) >>> -- Clarify IORT description (Hanjun Guo) >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Al Stone >>> Cc: Catalin Marinas >>> Cc: Will Deacon >>> Cc: Jonathan Corbet >>> --- >>> Documentation/arm64/acpi_object_usage.txt | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- >>> Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt | 28 +- >>> 2 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-) >>> [snip...] >> >> Ping? Any further comments or is this good to go? > > It would be nice to see an ack from some other ACPI people, if that's > possible. Which tree were you planning to merge this through? > > Will > Agreed. I was hoping the ping would elicit some of that. I assumed this would go through the arm64 tree since it's pretty specific to the architecture. -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Linaro Enterprise Group al.stone at linaro.org -----------------------------------