From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ard Biesheuvel Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI / ARM64: Remove EXPERT dependency for ACPI on ARM64 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:25:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1459360718-24125-1-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from mail-io0-f180.google.com ([209.85.223.180]:35203 "EHLO mail-io0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753087AbcC3TZd (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:25:33 -0400 Received: by mail-io0-f180.google.com with SMTP id g185so88762864ioa.2 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:25:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1459360718-24125-1-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Brown Cc: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , Len Brown , Mark Rutland , Steve Capper , Graeme Gregory , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" On 30 March 2016 at 19:58, Mark Brown wrote: > When ACPI was originally merged for arm64 it had only been tested on > emulators and not on real physical platforms and no platforms were > relying on it. This meant that there were concerns that there might be > serious issues attempting to use it on practical systems so it had a > dependency on EXPERT added to warn people that it was in an early stage > of development with very little practical testing. Since then things > have moved on a bit. We have seen people testing on real hardware and > now have people starting to produce some platforms (the most prominent > being the 96boards Cello) which only have ACPI support and which build > and run to some useful extent with mainline. > > This is not to say that ACPI support or support for these systems is > completely done, there are still areas being worked on such as PCI, but > at this point it seems that we can be reasonably sure that ACPI will be > viable for use on ARM64 and that the already merged support works for > the cases it handles. For the AMD Seattle based platforms support > outside of PCI has been fairly complete in mainline a few releases now. > > This is also not to say that we don't have vendors working with ACPI who > are trying do things that we would not consider optimal but it does not > appear that the EXPERT dependency is having a substantial impact on > these vendors. > > Given all this it seems that at this point the EXPERT dependency mainly > creates inconvenience for users with systems that are doing the right > thing and gets in the way of including the ACPI code in the testing that > people are doing on mainline. Removing it should help our ongoing > testing cover those platforms with only ACPI support and help ensure > that when ACPI code is merged any problems it causes for other users are > more easily discovered. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel > --- > drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > index 82b96ee8624c..bf5dc1ac3446 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ > menuconfig ACPI > bool "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support" > depends on !IA64_HP_SIM > - depends on IA64 || X86 || (ARM64 && EXPERT) > + depends on IA64 || X86 || ARM64 > depends on PCI > select PNP > default y > -- > 2.8.0.rc3 > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (Ard Biesheuvel) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:25:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ACPI / ARM64: Remove EXPERT dependency for ACPI on ARM64 In-Reply-To: <1459360718-24125-1-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org> References: <1459360718-24125-1-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 30 March 2016 at 19:58, Mark Brown wrote: > When ACPI was originally merged for arm64 it had only been tested on > emulators and not on real physical platforms and no platforms were > relying on it. This meant that there were concerns that there might be > serious issues attempting to use it on practical systems so it had a > dependency on EXPERT added to warn people that it was in an early stage > of development with very little practical testing. Since then things > have moved on a bit. We have seen people testing on real hardware and > now have people starting to produce some platforms (the most prominent > being the 96boards Cello) which only have ACPI support and which build > and run to some useful extent with mainline. > > This is not to say that ACPI support or support for these systems is > completely done, there are still areas being worked on such as PCI, but > at this point it seems that we can be reasonably sure that ACPI will be > viable for use on ARM64 and that the already merged support works for > the cases it handles. For the AMD Seattle based platforms support > outside of PCI has been fairly complete in mainline a few releases now. > > This is also not to say that we don't have vendors working with ACPI who > are trying do things that we would not consider optimal but it does not > appear that the EXPERT dependency is having a substantial impact on > these vendors. > > Given all this it seems that at this point the EXPERT dependency mainly > creates inconvenience for users with systems that are doing the right > thing and gets in the way of including the ACPI code in the testing that > people are doing on mainline. Removing it should help our ongoing > testing cover those platforms with only ACPI support and help ensure > that when ACPI code is merged any problems it causes for other users are > more easily discovered. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel > --- > drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > index 82b96ee8624c..bf5dc1ac3446 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ > menuconfig ACPI > bool "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support" > depends on !IA64_HP_SIM > - depends on IA64 || X86 || (ARM64 && EXPERT) > + depends on IA64 || X86 || ARM64 > depends on PCI > select PNP > default y > -- > 2.8.0.rc3 > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel