Re: [Linaro-acpi] [RFC part1 PATCH 1/7] ACPI: Make ACPI corerunning without PCI on ARM64

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:35:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Exactly. In particular we don't want people to get the wrong idea about
> where we are heading, so making it possible to use this code on embedded
> systems for me is a reason *not* to take the patch.

People are trying to deploy ACPI-based embedded x86, and most of the 
ACPI/DT integration discussion seems to have been based on the idea that 
this is a worthwhile thing to support. If we're not interested in doing 
so then we should probably make that a whole kernel decision rather than 
a per architecture one.

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