linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:56:26 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 02:06:29PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> There's ongoing discussion about unifying ACPI and ftd representation, 
> and once that's done this isn't a problem, but right now there's no 

Where is this discussion?

> terribly straightforward way to do this without a lot of basically 
> boilerplate code. The biggest issue is that ACPI has a very different 
> idea about event delivery and we'd need some way to abstract that.

Right, but there's lots of bolierplate code with this stuff anyway and
it's not fundamentally hard.  Last time I looked at ACPI it had a rather
different model for how all this stuff would work than DT did which
isn't terribly helpful here.

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