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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] PCI/ACPI: hisi: Add ACPI support for HiSilicon SoCs Host Controllers
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 09:52:36AM +0000, Gabriele Paoloni wrote:
> Hi Mark
>
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 05:34:20PM +0000, Gabriele Paoloni wrote:
> > > From: gabriele paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@huawei.com>
> > > +/*
> > > + * Retrieve rc_dbi base and size from _DSD
> > > + * Name (_DSD, Package () {
> > > + * ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
> > > + * Package () {
> > > + * Package () {"rc-dbi", Package () { 0x0, 0xb0080000, 0x0, 0x10000
> > }},
> > > + * }
> > > + * })
> > > + */
> >
> > As above, this does not look right. ACPI has standard mechanisms for
> > describing addresses. Making something up like this is not a good idea.
>
> I am quite new to ACPI, may I ask you to explain a bit?

ACPI has standard mechanisms for describing certain resources, and these
should not be described in _DSD. Memory or IO address regions are such
resources (in _CRS, IIRC), and should not be described in _DSD.

Thanks,
Mark.

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