[PATCH v3 13/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support

Jon Masters jcm at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 23:27:24 PDT 2014


On 09/03/2014 10:57 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 September 2014 11:26:14 Tomasz Nowicki wrote:

> In particular, the ACPI tables describing the irqchip have no way to
> identify the GIC at all, if I read the spec correctly, you have to
> parse the tables, ioremap the registers and then read the ID to know
> if you have GICv1/v2/v2m/v3/v4. There doesn't seem to be any "device"
> for the GIC that a hypothetical probe function would be based on.

(aside) I have already noticed this and am separately raising a request
to have this dealt with in the specification at a later time. I believe
it's fairly contrived, since I don't think it'll be at all common to
have a GICv3/v4 IP implementation that has a CPU interface defined.

The problem (not now, but in later implementations that actually have
GICv3/v4 hardware is making assumptions since even a GICv3 or GICv4
system could implement a legacy compatibility mode in which the memory
register interface is defined and mappable so you would be valid in
having defined memory addresses in the MADT linked structures then.

Jon.




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