[PATCH v10 09/21] ARM64 / ACPI: If we chose to boot from acpi then disable FDT

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Mar 18 09:52:01 PDT 2015


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 08:39:35PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> From: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory at linaro.org>
> 
> If the early boot methods of acpi are happy that we have valid ACPI
> tables and acpi=force has been passed, then do not unflat devicetree
> effectively disabling further hardware probing from DT.
> 
> CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit at amd.com>
> Tested-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing at huawei.com>
> Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo at redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Timur Tabi <timur at codeaurora.org>
> Tested-by: Robert Richter <rrichter at cavium.com>
> Acked-by: Robert Richter <rrichter at cavium.com>
> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> index 4f1a014..e8c7000 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>  
>  	early_ioremap_reset();
>  
> -	unflatten_device_tree();
> +	if (acpi_disabled)
> +		unflatten_device_tree();

Lorenzo commented on the previous patch that acpi=force still allows the
fall back to DT. I guess you may want something like:

	if (acpi_disabled && !param_acpi_force)
		unflatten_device_tree();

-- 
Catalin



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