From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini-mvvWK6WmYclDPfheJLI6IQ@public.gmane.org> To: Olof Johansson <olof-nZhT3qVonbNeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>, Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>, "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" <devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>, "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" <linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org> Subject: Re: ACPI vs DT at runtime Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:18:03 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1311171705130.4714@kaball.uk.xensource.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAOesGMhkCn2zeJj_ZZAZu_wJya-4evWEqNHpVJEpjxzWHVWY3A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > On Friday 15 November 2013, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> So, I'm strongly urging that whatever the server guys try to do, it > >> will in the end result in the ACPI data being translated into DT > >> equivalents, such that the kernel only needs to handle data via DT. > > > > I don't think that a translation layer is the answer, I see the problem > > more in things that cannot be translated automatically. The parts that > > are similar enough to allow translation could also just be handled by > > a thin abstraction layer in the kernel, which I think we will see > > on embedded x86 with DT-in-ACPI-syntax. > > I'm not so sure that converting everything yet again to another > abstraction layer is a good solution. We've got one level of > abstraction today -- DT. And we've got the un-abstracted layer of > platform devices. Churning all drivers yet again seems like the wrong > way to do this. For things that we can pre-populate instead of adding > runtime abstraction, we should. Simply using DT would help avoiding the awkward situation where a driver of a device only works with one of the two description formats and not the other. > > I think we can still treat ACPI on ARM64 as a beginner's mistake and > > provide hand-written DT blobs for the few systems that start shipping > > with that. > > I think we can do better -- we can ask those vendors to not ship ACPI > at all, and ship DT themselves (together with us for review, etc). They can ship with ACPI if they want to, what is important is that they ship with device tree too. Encouraging them to do that is definitely the right thing to do today, regardless of the medium to long term ACPI strategy for the Linux kernel. > Especially since doing a broken ACPI implementation today _just for > us_ will just distract them. If they need one for RT, fine. As I > mentioned elsewhere, shipping a flashed DTB is no different from > shipping ACPI from a future-proof point of view; we'll end up > overriding either at some point once we figure out things better. Well said. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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From: stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com (Stefano Stabellini) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: ACPI vs DT at runtime Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:18:03 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1311171705130.4714@kaball.uk.xensource.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAOesGMhkCn2zeJj_ZZAZu_wJya-4evWEqNHpVJEpjxzWHVWY3A@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > On Friday 15 November 2013, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> So, I'm strongly urging that whatever the server guys try to do, it > >> will in the end result in the ACPI data being translated into DT > >> equivalents, such that the kernel only needs to handle data via DT. > > > > I don't think that a translation layer is the answer, I see the problem > > more in things that cannot be translated automatically. The parts that > > are similar enough to allow translation could also just be handled by > > a thin abstraction layer in the kernel, which I think we will see > > on embedded x86 with DT-in-ACPI-syntax. > > I'm not so sure that converting everything yet again to another > abstraction layer is a good solution. We've got one level of > abstraction today -- DT. And we've got the un-abstracted layer of > platform devices. Churning all drivers yet again seems like the wrong > way to do this. For things that we can pre-populate instead of adding > runtime abstraction, we should. Simply using DT would help avoiding the awkward situation where a driver of a device only works with one of the two description formats and not the other. > > I think we can still treat ACPI on ARM64 as a beginner's mistake and > > provide hand-written DT blobs for the few systems that start shipping > > with that. > > I think we can do better -- we can ask those vendors to not ship ACPI > at all, and ship DT themselves (together with us for review, etc). They can ship with ACPI if they want to, what is important is that they ship with device tree too. Encouraging them to do that is definitely the right thing to do today, regardless of the medium to long term ACPI strategy for the Linux kernel. > Especially since doing a broken ACPI implementation today _just for > us_ will just distract them. If they need one for RT, fine. As I > mentioned elsewhere, shipping a flashed DTB is no different from > shipping ACPI from a future-proof point of view; we'll end up > overriding either at some point once we figure out things better. Well said.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-17 17:18 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 186+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2013-11-15 1:44 ACPI vs DT at runtime Olof Johansson 2013-11-15 1:44 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-15 9:57 ` Mark Rutland 2013-11-15 9:57 ` Mark Rutland [not found] ` <20131115175241. GB27174@quad.lixom.net> [not found] ` <20131115095717.GC1709-NuALmloUBlrZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-15 17:52 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-15 17:52 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-15 18:13 ` David Goodenough 2013-11-21 16:15 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-18 17:47 ` Jon Masters 2013-11-18 17:47 ` Jon Masters [not found] ` <20131115175241.GB27174-O5ziIzlqnXUVNXGz7ipsyg@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-15 18:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-11-15 18:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [not found] ` <20131115180832.GR16735-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-15 18:42 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-15 18:42 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-15 19:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-15 19:56 ` Arnd Bergmann [not found] ` <201311152056.47846.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-15 23:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-11-15 23:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [not found] ` <20131115232109.GT16735-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-18 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-18 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann [not found] ` <201311181605.37300.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-18 15:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-11-18 15:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-11-18 15:46 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-18 15:46 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-21 16:10 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 16:10 ` Grant Likely [not found] ` <20131121161037.C528CC406A3-WNowdnHR2B42iJbIjFUEsiwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 18:26 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-21 18:26 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-21 19:40 ` Mark Brown 2013-11-21 19:40 ` Mark Brown [not found] ` <20131118151900.GF16735@ n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> [not found] ` <20131118151900.GF16735-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 16:11 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 16:11 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 16:00 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 16:00 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-19 11:30 ` Mark Rutland 2013-11-19 11:30 ` Mark Rutland 2013-11-19 11:35 ` Mark Rutland 2013-11-19 11:35 ` Mark Rutland [not found] ` <20131119113557.GI5914-NuALmloUBlrZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-19 11:51 ` Leif Lindholm 2013-11-19 11:51 ` Leif Lindholm [not found] ` <20131119113015.GH5914-NuALmloUBlrZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-19 11:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-11-19 11:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-11-19 13:56 ` Stefano Stabellini 2013-11-19 13:56 ` Stefano Stabellini 2013-11-19 14:38 ` Mark Rutland 2013-11-19 14:38 ` Mark Rutland [not found] ` <20131119143840.GN5914-NuALmloUBlrZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-19 14:59 ` Leif Lindholm 2013-11-19 14:59 ` Leif Lindholm 2013-11-19 18:23 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-19 18:23 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-19 14:05 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-19 14:05 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-19 15:21 ` Mark Rutland 2013-11-19 15:21 ` Mark Rutland [not found] ` <20131119152157.GO5914-NuALmloUBlrZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-19 16:19 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-19 16:19 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-19 18:34 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-19 18:34 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-19 19:06 ` Tom Rini 2013-11-19 19:06 ` Tom Rini 2013-11-19 18:19 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-19 18:19 ` Olof Johansson [not found] ` <20131119181959.GA20967-O5ziIzlqnXUVNXGz7ipsyg@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 16:37 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 16:37 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 16:29 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 16:29 ` Grant Likely [not found] ` <20131121170122. GB22960@srcf.ucam.org> [not found] ` <20131121170122.GB22960-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 18:38 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 18:38 ` Grant Likely [not found] ` <20131121162944.F087FC406A3-WNowdnHR2B42iJbIjFUEsiwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 17:01 ` Matthew Garrett 2013-11-21 17:01 ` Matthew Garrett 2013-11-21 17:58 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-21 17:58 ` Olof Johansson [not found] ` <20131121175822.GA9590-O5ziIzlqnXUVNXGz7ipsyg@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 18:19 ` Matthew Garrett 2013-11-21 18:19 ` Matthew Garrett 2013-11-21 18:33 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-21 18:33 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-21 18:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-11-21 18:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [not found] ` <20131121185408.GX16735-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 18:59 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-21 18:59 ` Olof Johansson [not found] ` <CAOesGMgzUSMDy99XojipfRd5OM88UhfbCYO0aoc5m-Q8Fwnddg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 19:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-11-21 19:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [not found] ` <20131121190126.GZ16735-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 19:31 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-21 19:31 ` Olof Johansson [not found] ` < CAOesGMgzUSMDy99XojipfRd5OM88UhfbCYO0aoc5m-Q8Fwnddg@mail.gmail.com> [not found] ` < 20131121190126.GZ16735@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> [not found] ` < CAOesGMgxGq1Zmo+Dq-Rmy2F02-=12yUzB0AKn35yK2j3CacNRQ@mail.gmail.com> [not found] ` <CAOesGMgxGq1Zmo+Dq-Rmy2F02-=12yUzB0AKn35yK2j3CacNRQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-21 20:44 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 20:44 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 18:53 ` Mark Brown 2013-11-21 18:53 ` Mark Brown 2013-11-15 18:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2013-11-15 18:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe [not found] ` <20131115182826.GB14920-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-15 18:57 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-15 18:57 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-11-20 13:49 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-20 13:49 ` Grant Likely [not found] ` <20131120134942.95DBFC4079D-WNowdnHR2B42iJbIjFUEsiwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-20 17:43 ` Stefano Stabellini 2013-11-20 17:43 ` Stefano Stabellini [not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1311201737410.3198-7Z66fg9igcxYtxbxJUhB2Dgeux46jI+i@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-20 17:47 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-20 17:47 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-18 5:19 ` Jon Masters 2013-11-18 5:26 ` Jon Masters [not found] ` <5289A4F3.5040203-Zp4isUonpHBD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-18 19:25 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-18 19:25 ` Olof Johansson [not found] ` <20131118192552.GD5886-O5ziIzlqnXUVNXGz7ipsyg@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-18 20:43 ` Jon Masters 2013-11-18 20:43 ` Jon Masters [not found] ` <528A7BFD.4020303-Zp4isUonpHBD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-18 21:25 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-18 21:25 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-18 7:22 ` Richard Cochran 2013-11-18 13:55 ` Stefano Stabellini 2013-11-18 15:00 ` Mark Brown [not found] ` <20131118150052.GC24408-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-18 19:13 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-18 19:13 ` Olof Johansson [not found] ` <20131118191336.GB5886-O5ziIzlqnXUVNXGz7ipsyg@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-19 9:12 ` Richard Cochran 2013-11-19 9:12 ` Richard Cochran 2013-11-19 18:48 ` Olof Johansson 2013-11-19 18:48 ` Olof Johansson [not found] ` <20131119184827.GD20967-O5ziIzlqnXUVNXGz7ipsyg@public.gmane.org> 2013-11-20 6:40 ` Richard Cochran 2013-11-20 6:40 ` Richard Cochran 2013-11-21 18:16 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 18:16 ` Grant Likely 2013-11-21 19:21 ` Russell King - 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