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From: Jon Nettleton <jon@solid-run.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] bus: fsl-mc: Add ACPI support for fsl-mc
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:14:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABdtJHs5zdS=unviHX3=Gsbf=q9ooS0sYMUAbtvaZT0D0ORNkw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200131150929.GB13902@lunn.ch>

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 4:09 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> > Devicetree to the rescue!
>
> Yes, exactly. We have good, standardised descriptions for most of this
> in device tree. And phylink can handle SFP and SFP+. Nobody has worked
> on QSFP yet, since phylink has mostly been pushed by the embedded
> world and 40G is not yet popular in the embedded world.
>
> > Entertaining the use of ACPI without any firmware abstraction for this
> > hardware really feels like a square peg / round hole situation, so I'm
> > assuming somebody's telling you that you need it "FOAR ENTAPRYZE". Who
> > is it and can you tell them to bog off?
>
> The issues here is that SFPs are appearing in more and more server
> systems, replacing plain old copper Ethernet. If the boxes use off the
> shelf Mellanox or Intel PCIe cards, it is not an issue. But silicon
> vendors are integrating this into the SoC in the ARM way of doing
> things, memory mapped, spread over a number of controllers, not a
> single PCIe device.
>
> Maybe we need hybrid systems. Plain, old, simple, boring things like
> CPUs, serial ports, SATA, PCIe busses are described in ACPI. Complex
> interesting things are in DT. The hard thing is the interface between
> the two. DT having a phandle to an ACPI object, e.g a GPIO, interrupt
> or an i2c bus.
>
>    Andrew

Just as a review reference, I have found an old attempted
implementation documented here.
https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/apd-tools/wiki

-Jon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-31 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-28  8:08 [PATCH] bus: fsl-mc: Add ACPI support for fsl-mc Makarand Pawagi
2020-01-28 10:58 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-01-28 11:09 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-01-31 10:35   ` [EXT] " Makarand Pawagi
2020-01-31 11:06     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-01-31 11:06     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-01-31 12:01       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-01-31 12:28         ` Jon Nettleton
2020-01-31 12:48           ` Robin Murphy
2020-01-31 13:11             ` Jon Nettleton
2020-01-31 13:29               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-01-31 13:39               ` Robin Murphy
2020-01-31 14:29                 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-01-31 14:47                   ` Will Deacon
2020-01-31 15:09                     ` Andrew Lunn
2020-01-31 15:14                       ` Jon Nettleton [this message]
2020-01-31 15:41                         ` Andrew Lunn
2020-01-31 15:39                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-01-31 15:15                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-01-31 15:40                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-02-01 11:49                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-02-01 17:36                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-02-14 15:05         ` Pankaj Bansal
2020-02-14 15:54           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-02-14 15:58             ` Pankaj Bansal
2020-02-14 16:19               ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-02-14 16:35                 ` Pankaj Bansal
2020-02-14 17:49                   ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-02-17 12:35                     ` Pankaj Bansal
2020-02-17 15:25                       ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-02-17 15:35                         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-02-17 16:26                           ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-02-18  8:02                         ` Pankaj Bansal (OSS)
2020-02-14 16:29               ` Robin Murphy

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