[Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v3 1/5] ACPI: introduce CONFIG_ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE to enable this ACPI mode

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> Hi Hanjun,
>
> Okay, so after talking with Al and Graeme on IRC, I think I understand
> what is going on. The fact that ACPICA doesn't allow for both normal and
> hardware reduced support in the same build is a very big problem.
> However, it isn't a problem for ARM since we'll never support
> non-hardware reduced mode. The x86 folks need to work that out when/if
> they ever add support for hardware reduced mode.

I believe SMBIOS/DMI tables are only part of full ACPI, so there is a
need on ARM for more than hardware reduced mode.

Rob