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

[Graeme Gregory]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 08:06:08PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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.
> 
You seem to be crossing the streams here, SMBIOS/DMI are not part of ACPI.

The only mention I can even find of them in the spec is you can cross reference
memory to its SMBIOS handle. Which is optional. It even says OSPM will not
use this value.

Graeme