linux-kernel - Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v2 00/18] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1

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Message-ID: <53E050B2.2080609@linaro.org>
Date:	Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:34:10 +0800
From:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
To:	Alexander Spyridakis <a.spyridakis@...tualopensystems.com>
CC:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org, Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, 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>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Subject: Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v2 00/18] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based
 on ACPI 5.1

On 2014-8-5 1:30, Alexander Spyridakis wrote:
> On 4 August 2014 17:28, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org
> <mailto:hanjun.guo@...aro.org>> wrote:
>>
>> ACPI 5.1 has been released and now be freely available for
>> download [1]. It fixed some major gaps to run ACPI on ARM,
>> this patch just follow the ACPI 5.1 spec and prepare the
>> code to run ACPI on ARM64.
> 
> Hello,

Hi,

> 
> Is this work still reproducible on Foundation and/or ARMv8 FVP models, as
> described in the following wiki page?
> https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/ACPI

Yes, I think so. If you meet any problem , please let us know, and we will
update the wiki.

> 
> Should I assume that UEFI is mandatory (alternative being the aarch64
> bootwrapper), as described in Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt?

Yes, UEFI is mandatory if you want to use ACPI.

> 
> Thanks in advance.

You are welcome :)

Thanks
Hanjun

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