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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ACPI / CPPC: do not require the _PSD method when using CPPC
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:03:38AM -0600, Al Stone wrote:
> According to the ACPI 6.3 specification, the _PSD method is optional
> when using CPPC. The underlying assumption appears to be that each CPU
> can change frequency independently from all other CPUs; _PSD is provided
> to tell the OS that some processors can NOT do that.
>
> However, the acpi_get_psd() function returns -ENODEV if there is no _PSD
> method present, or an ACPI error status if an error occurs when evaluating
> _PSD, if present. This essentially makes _PSD mandatory when using CPPC,
> in violation of the specification, and only on Linux.
>
> This has forced some firmware writers to provide a dummy _PSD, even though
> it is irrelevant, but only because Linux requires it; other OSPMs follow
> the spec. We really do not want to have OS specific ACPI tables, though.
>
> So, correct acpi_get_psd() so that it does not return an error if there
> is no _PSD method present, but does return a failure when the method can
> not be executed properly. This allows _PSD to be optional as it should
> be.
>

Makes sense to me. FWIW,

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla < sudeep.holla@arm.com>

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Regards,
Sudeep

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