ACPI vs DT at runtime

[Leif Lindholm]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:35:57AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > The UEFI spec pulls in portions of ACPI. I do not know the full extent
> > of the interaction between the two, but I know that they are not
> > completely decoupled. As you have pointed out we are not experienced
> > with ACPI or UEFI, so I don't think we can make statements that one is
> > perfectly fine without the other.
> 
> Given Leif's comments it seems that they are decoupled sufficiently to
> be considered separately.

Well, UEFI should be considered separately from ACPI.

I am not convinced it makes sense to consider ACPI for any case that
does not also include UEFI.

/
    Leif