From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zhaoshenglong@huawei.com (Shannon Zhao) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:22:45 +0800 Subject: [PATCH v9 21/21] ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64 In-Reply-To: <1424853601-6675-22-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> References: <1424853601-6675-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <1424853601-6675-22-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Message-ID: <54F05385.2080506@huawei.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 2015/2/25 16:40, Hanjun Guo wrote: > +Not yet implemented are: > + > + -- Section 10: power source and power meter devices > + > + -- Section 11: thermal management > + > + -- Section 12: embedded controllers interface > + > + -- Section 13: SMBus interfaces > + > + -- Section 17: NUMA support (prototypes have been submitted for > + review) > + > Here at the end of the file. Redundant blank line. > +ACPI is also important because hardware and OS vendors have already worked > +out how to use it to support the general purpose ecosystem. The infrastructure > +is in place, the bindings are in place, and the process is in place. DT does > +exactly what we need it to when working with vertically integrated devices, > +but we don?t have good processes for supporting what the server vendors need. > +We could potentially get there with DT, but doing so doesn?t buy us anything. > +ACPI already does what the hardware vendors need, Microsoft won?t collaborate > +with us on DT, and the hardware vendors would still need to provide two > +completely separate firmware interface; one for Linux and one for Windows. > + And Here at the end of the file. Redundant blank line. -- Thanks, Shannon