linux-kernel - Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v7 04/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce early_param for "acpi" and pass acpi=force to enable ACPI

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Message-ID: <20150128180816.GF31752@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:08:16 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	"hanjun.guo@...aro.org" <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"wangyijing@...wei.com" <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"phoenix.liyi@...wei.com" <phoenix.liyi@...wei.com>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	"jcm@...hat.com" <jcm@...hat.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>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v7 04/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce
 early_param for "acpi" and pass acpi=force to enable ACPI

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:58:54PM +0000, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org> wrote:
> > From: Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>
> >
> > Introduce one early parameters "off" and "force" for "acpi", acpi=off
> > will be the default behavior for ARM64, so introduce acpi=force to
> > enable ACPI on ARM64.
> >
> > Disable ACPI before early parameters parsed, and enable it to pass
> > "acpi=force" if people want use ACPI on ARM64. This ensures DT be
> > the prefer one if ACPI table and DT both are provided at this moment.
> 
> What is the reason to assume that DT is preferred over ACPI?  I would
> have thought that if ACPI is present, then it means we're on an ARM64
> server platform, and therefore it should be used.  It seems silly to
> require acpi=force on every ARM64 server platform.

I'm against requiring acpi=force when *only* ACPI tables are present (I
don't like a command line argument to become firmware-kernel ABI), but
otherwise DT takes precedence (it was the first supported booting method
on arm64 and currently it is more mature and feature-rich than ACPI on
arm64).

-- 
Catalin
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