linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 21/21] ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:19:59 +0800
From:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
To:	Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@...wei.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
CC:	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>,
	Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@...eaurora.org>,
	suravee.suthikulpanit@....com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org, Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>,
	Yi Li <phoenix.liyi@...wei.com>,
	Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@...hat.com>,
	"Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 21/21] ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation
 for arm64

Hi Shannon,

On 2015年02月27日 19:22, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> 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 a lot for the pointer, I will update it :)

Regards
Hanjun
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