[PATCH 1/4] ata: ahci_platform: Add ACPI support for AMD Seattle SATA controller
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Oct 6 11:47:25 PDT 2014
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 08:44:35PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 06 October 2014 19:21:53 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Unfortunately not. I'd assume that PM registers are expected to be
> > accessed via the _PS* methods instead. Does MSI make sense outside the
> > context of PCI interrupts?
>
> Yes, the ARM GIC has a weird sense of what MSI is used for, and
> apparently some SoC vendors have started using MSI by default for
> all on-chip peripherals.
>
> A patch series to extend MSI to platform devices is currently
> under review.
Mm. Yeah, it doesn't seem like there's any ACPI-defined mechanism for
MSI control. Let's chat about this next week?
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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