linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add AMBA bus probing support to ACPI

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Message-ID: <5627C041.6090001@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:41:37 -0600
From:	Al Stone <ahs3@...hat.com>
To:	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	shannon.zhao@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add AMBA bus probing support to ACPI

On 09/30/2015 04:38 AM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> As discussed when Shannon Zhao sent a patch to add platform_device support
> to pl061 driver. Russel and other maintainers prefered that ACPI learned
> how to create AMBA devices rather than converting/adding platform_device
> support to AMBA drivers.
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/431364
> 
> 1) Adds basic AMBA device probing support to ACPI, it uses a whitelist of
> device IDs as the number of AMBA devices is limited. Currently the two ids
> present are those used in QEMU for arm64.
> 
> 2) Adds the plumbing into ACPI probe sequence.
> 
> 3) From ACPI pl011 is only defined (SBSA document) to be in SBSA mode which has
> reduced functionality. There may be a better method to do this that I have
> overlooked.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Graeme
> 
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Any comments on these patches?  It's been awful quiet....

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ciao,
al
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Red Hat, Inc.
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