[PATCH 19/19] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64

Graeme Gregory gg at slimlogic.co.uk
Sat Aug 16 05:45:33 PDT 2014


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 06:43:10PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > Additional driver specific
> > +data should be passed in the appropriate _DSM (ACPI Section 9.14.1) method or
> > +_DSD (ACPI Section 6.2.5).
> 
> Re: _DSD
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Re: _DSM
> 
> No, not if it can be handled by _DSD.
> 
> cheers,
> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

Thanks good point, Ill update that paragraph to indicate preference on
_DSD.

Graeme




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