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

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Message-ID: <56291728.8040602@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:04:40 -0600
From:	Al Stone <ahs3@...hat.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-serial@...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 10/21/2015 04:29 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Al Stone <ahs3@...hat.com> wrote:
>> 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....
> 
> That's because of my limited review bandwidth.
> 
> I'm kind of in the middle of travel now, sorry about that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 

Aha.  No worries, Rafael.  Just curious.  Thanks for checking in,
and safe travels!

-- 
ciao,
al
-----------------------------------
Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3@...hat.com
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