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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm64/acpi: make ACPI boot preference configurable
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On 2/28/2018 11:07 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 00:29 +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com
>>> wrote:
>>> On 02/27/2018 07:40 AM, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
>>> For arm64 DT is suppose to *not* be the preferred method, yet still
>>> DT
>>> is preferred if the firmware provides both tables to the kernel.
>> However several arm64 products in embedded applications are still not
>> SBSA/SBBR compliant (and I have worked on a couple of such
>> implementations earlier) and still use bootloaders like u-boot (and
>> also closed-source implementations) which have no support for ACPI
>> currently and still rely on a DT to pass the system hardware
>> information to the kernel.
>> So far only open source implementation of a ACPI compliant firmware is
>> EDK2/UEFI which supports ACPI as the preferred boot method
> You mean for non-x86?
>
>> and I am
>> not sure if all u-boot/in-house firmware implementations are planned
>> to be ported over to EDK2/UEFI for embedded applications.
> Why do you need that? ACPI (if you are talking about ACPI only, w/o EFI)
> is supported in U-Boot for few x86 SoCs/platforms. Moreover, one of them
> had never been shipped with ACPI/EFI complaint services in firmware and
> ACPI layer is purely done in U-Boot.
>
Right, let alone Chromebooks. :-)


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