Re: [PATCH 0/2] Updated SPCR quirks for Moonshot/Mustang

From: Graeme Gregory
Date: Sat Aug 05 2017 - 03:25:53 EST


On 4 August 2017 at 23:51, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Graeme Gregory
> <graeme.gregory@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> A couple of patches to build on the SPCR quirks support already upstreamed.
>>
>> 1 - Moonshot m400 cartridge has the same soc but ACPI tables have different
>> HPe specific headers so extend quirk to understand those too.
>>
>> 2 - Relevant vendors do not seem to be working on DBG2/SPCR update for
>> situation where the clock is unknown. We want these machines to boot with
>> console initialised from SPCR before I die of old age so use the previous
>> quirk handling to also handle the clock problem as well.
>
> It increasingly seems to me that spcr.c firmly belongs in
> drivers/acpi/arm64/. Any chance to move it in there and then mess up
> with it further?
>
Apparently x86 machines exist with SPCR table.

But if that is your wish I can certainly add that to series.

Graeme