[PATCH 1/3] Honor ACPI _CCA attribute setting

Huang Shijie shijie.huang at arm.com
Mon Aug 17 20:36:55 PDT 2015


On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 09:12:28AM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> Hello Suravee,
> 
> On 08/13/2015 08:45 PM, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
> > On 8/13/15 04:51, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> >> ACPI configurations can now mark devices as noncoherent,
> >> support that choice.
> >
> > This change was in my earlier revisions for the original patch series to
> > add ACPI CCA support. At the time, this was pushed back since we were
> > not sure whether this would be a useful case, and whether such hardware
> > exists.
> 
> Yes, I was made aware of that conversation during the review here.
> 
> Basically, the ARM Juno development platform has a mix of coherent and 
> noncoherent devices. The EHCI being one of the primary noncoherent 
> peripherals. Without which, the usefulness of the platform for 
> developing with an ACPI kernel is limited.
> 
Tesed-by: Huang Shijie <shijie.huang at arm.com>




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