linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/19] ARM64 / ACPI: Get RSDP and ACPI boot-time tables

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Message-ID: <53D7A6A2.9020005@arm.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:50:26 +0100
From:	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>
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	"graeme.gregory@...aro.org" <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...aro.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
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	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
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	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Charles Garcia-Tobin <Charles.Garcia-Tobin@....com>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
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	Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] ARM64 / ACPI: Get RSDP and ACPI boot-time tables



On 29/07/14 14:08, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 2014-7-29 2:29, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> [...]
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * We never plan to use RSDT on arm/arm64 as its deprecated in spec but this
>>> + * variable is still required by the ACPI core
>>> + */
>>> +u32 acpi_rsdt_forced;
>>
>> This looks like yet another stray variable not used anywhere including
>> core ACPI
>
> It will be used by ACPICA to get the RSDP in acpi_tb_parse_root_table()
> in tbutils.c.
>

No I couldn't find it in mainline/acpica/linux-next(pm tree).

On further digging found that commit fab461058385("ACPICA: Cleanup the
option of forcing the use of the RSDT") has renamed it to
acpi_gbl_do_not_use_xsdt and moved it into acpica with default false.
So you can remove this.

Regards,
Sudeep

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