linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 19/19] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64

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Message-ID: <20140729103047.GC18250@cbox>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:30:47 +0200
From:	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...aro.org>,
	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Charles.Garcia-Tobin@....com, Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linaro-acpi-private@...aro.org,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/19] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 09:00:25PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> From: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>
> 
> Add documentation for the guidelines of how to use ACPI
> on ARM64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt |  240 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 240 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..12cd550
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,240 @@
> +ACPI on ARMv8 Servers
> +---------------------

[...]

> +
> +
> +There exists in the ACPI 5.1 specification no standard binding for these objects
> +to enable programmable levels or rates so this should be avoid if possible and
> +the resources set to appropriate level by the firmware. If this is not possible
> +then any manipulation should be abstracted in ASL.
> +

I'm not a native English speaker, but this wording sounds strange to me.
I would suggest "There exists no specification in the the..." or more
simply "The ACPI 5.1 specification does not contain any standard...".

-Christoffer
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