Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 01:32:56PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> If you end up having to write two whole drivers that sounds enormously
> depressing especially for those of us working on devices that aren't
> architecture specific.  We've managed to avoid that thus far with device
> tree and platform data, would it not be possible to mandate that people
> use ACPI in a vaugley sane way which can support this too?

There's ongoing discussion about unifying ACPI and ftd representation, 
and once that's done this isn't a problem, but right now there's no 
terribly straightforward way to do this without a lot of basically 
boilerplate code. The biggest issue is that ACPI has a very different 
idea about event delivery and we'd need some way to abstract that.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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