From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755150AbcEBUTo (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 16:19:44 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:33239 "EHLO mail-io0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754882AbcEBUTf (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 16:19:35 -0400 Reply-To: ahs3@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/1] ARM64: ACPI: Update documentation for latest specification version References: <1461619287-27211-1-git-send-email-al.stone@linaro.org> To: Al Stone , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org From: Al Stone Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-ID: <3b6d5be3-40ab-94dc-2590-8b2638cbdc15@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 14:19:32 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1461619287-27211-1-git-send-email-al.stone@linaro.org> 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 04/25/2016 03:21 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 v5: > -- Miscellaneous typos and corrections (Lorenzo Pieralisi) > -- Add linux-acpi@ ML to the distribution list (Alexey Klimov) > -- Corrections to CPPC information (Alexey Klimov) > -- ACK from Lorenzo Pieralisi > -- Updated bibliographic info (Al Stone) > > Changes for v4: > -- Clarify that IORT can sometimes be optional (Jon Masters). > -- Remove "Use as needed" descriptions of ACPI objects; they provide > no substantive information and doing so simplifies maintenance of > this document over time. These have been replaced with a simpler > notice that states that unless otherwise noted, do what the ACPI > specification says is needed. > -- Corrected the _OSI object usage recommendation; it described kernel > behavior that does not exist (Al Stone). > > 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) > > > Al Stone (1): > ARM64: ACPI: Update documentation for latest specification version > > Documentation/arm64/acpi_object_usage.txt | 343 ++++++++++++++++-------------- > Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt | 40 ++-- > 2 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-) > Ping? If there are no further comments, can this be pulled in through either the documentation or arm64 tree? Thanks. -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ahs3@redhat.com -----------------------------------