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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:05:41PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> There is no hardware platform available at this point. From a kernel
> perspective, the aim is to minimise (or even completely remove) the
> platform code from the architecture specific directory. FDT is currently
> mandated and there are ongoing discussions for ACPI support.

While mandating FDT is a massive advance over arm32, if there's a chance
that ACPI-based AArch64 platforms will ship in a similar timeframe to
FDT then I think we should ensure that ACPI and FDT are merged
beforehand - the alternative is that people are going to end up writing
the same hardware driver twice for different firmware implementations. I
don't think anyone benefits from introducing a platform that has
multiple device representations[1]

[1] Yeah x86 has the same problem with PNP and ACPI and PCI and given
how much pain that's caused me I wish someone had complained at the time

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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