Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v7 00/17] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1

[Suravee Suthikulpanit]

On 1/16/15 09:17, Al Stone wrote:
> On 01/16/2015 03:20 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:31:53PM +0000, Al Stone wrote:
> > > On 01/15/2015 11:23 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:26:20PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > This is the v7 of ACPI core patches for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll get right to the point: Can we please have this series queued up
> > > > > for v3.20?
> > > > [snip ... ]
> > >
> > > > > 5. Platform support patches need verification and review
> > > > >     * ACPI core works on at least the Foundation model, Juno, APM
> > > > > Mustang, and AMD Seattle
> > > > >     * There still are driver patches being discussed. See Al's summary
> > > > > for details
> > > > >     * As I argued above, the state of driver patches isn't going to be
> > > >
> > > > We are still lacking here. To quote Al, "First version for AMD Seattle
> > > > has been posted to the public linaro-acpi mailing list for initial
> > > > review". Sorry but I don't follow linaro-acpi list. I don't know what's
> > > > in those patches and I can't tell which subsystems they touch, whether
> > > > maintainers agree with them. So in conclusion, I'm not confident the
> > > > arm64 hardware ACPI story looks that great yet.
> > >
> > > This is solely my fault -- too much time on processes, email, and
> > > documentation, not enough time on the Seattle patches.  And not
> > > enough Seattles to go around for someone else to pick up the slack.
> > >
> > > I am aware not everyone is subscribed to linaro-acpi; we use that
> > > for internal review before posting more broadly, which is the only
> > > reason I sent them there.
> > >
> > > I'm in the middle of updating them as I have time, based on really
> > > good feedback from Arnd; few of them are terribly new (the very first
> > > posting was [0]) -- it's mostly a matter of rebasing, integrating
> > > updates from AMD and others, and reacting to the comments.  One can
> > > also see what these patches will probably look like via one of the
> > > Fedora kernel trees [1].
> >
> > Do you have some simple branch against mainline with just the ACPI core
> > patches and what's required for AMD Seattle? I have no plans to dig
> > through the Fedora kernels.
>
> Nor was I expecting you to; I only added it as additional reference
> material, should one be interested.
>
> The version of patches sent to the linaro-acpi list are from the Linaro
> acpi.git tree, and are precisely what you describe; those are the ones
> being updated.

Catalin,

For Seattle, you could use the https://git.linaro.org/leg/acpi/acpi.git 
acpi-5.1-v7, and it would also need the AHCI ACPI patch here 
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/5/662).

Thanks,
Suravee
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