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

[Hanjun Guo]

On 2013-12-10 1:06, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

I agree, thanks for this information.