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

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> 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.

I have only seen Intel doing this, are there more people doing that?

As noted on patch [0/7] I still get patches for embedded x86 which
use ISA-style probing for embedded x86, e.g:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=138559852307673&w=2

At the same time some people are refining SFI (simple firmware
interface) support for GPIO, albeit I think that was for elder
embedded x86'es.

Yours,
Linus Walleij