[PATCH v5 18/18] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64

Graeme Gregory gg at slimlogic.co.uk
Thu Jan 1 12:04:24 PST 2015


On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 04:34:46PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 2014年12月31日 04:13, ashwinc at codeaurora.org wrote:
> >Hi Hanjun,
> >
> >Overall the document looks good to us. Some minor clarifications below.
> >
> >>---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>From: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory at linaro.org>
> >>
> >>Add documentation for the guidelines of how to use ACPI
> >>on ARM64.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory at linaro.org>
> >>Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone at linaro.org>
> >>Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo at linaro.org>
> >>---
> >>  Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt |  323
> >>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 323 insertions(+)
> >>  create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt
> >>
> >
> >[..]
> >
> >>+Relationship with Device Tree
> >>+-----------------------------
> >
> >[..]
> >
> >>+When booting using ACPI tables, the /chosen node in DT will still be
> >>parsed
> >>+to extract the kernel command line and initrd path.  No other section of
> >>the
> >>+DT will be used.
> >
> >Is this still true?
> 
> No, we can booting the ACPI system in EFI stub without dtb. Catalin
> also pointed out this issue, I will remove this paragraph.
> 

The paragraph is still correct, the /chosen node is always present even
if nothing else is.

Graeme




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