Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] PCI/ACPI: Add ACPI support for non ECAM Host Bridge Controllers

[Jeremy Linton]

On 12/03/2015 02:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 03 December 2015 17:58:26 Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > I will put together a proposal to define the way we specify HID and
> > related DSD properties for PCI host controllers and send it to
> > the ACPI working group for review.
>
> That also requires a change to SBSA, right? Today, SBSA assumes that
> we have a standard PCI host that will work with any hardware independent
> PCI implementation in an OS. We either have to give up on SBSA saying
> much about how PCI hosts are implemented, or stop assuming that hardware
> is SBSA compliant.

Which would be standardizing nonstandard hardware. It would surprise me 
if that got much traction.



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