Re: [PATCH] x86/of: Restore possibility to use both ACPI and FDT from bootloader

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 06:18:03PM +0000, Dmytro Maluka wrote:
> There are cases when the bootloader provides information to the kernel
> in both ACPI and DTB, not interchangeably. One such use case is virtual
> machines in Android. When running on x86, the Android Virtualization
> Framework (AVF) boots VMs with ACPI like it is usually done on x86 (i.e.
> the virtual LAPIC, IOAPIC, HPET, PCI MMCONFIG etc are described in ACPI)
> but also passes various AVF-specific boot parameters in DTB. This allows
> reusing the same implementations of various AVF components on both
> arm64 and x86.

What are these "AVF-specific boot parameters"?