[Linaro-acpi] [V2 PATCH 1/5] ACPI / scan: Parse _CCA and setup device coherency

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Thu May 7 13:18:44 PDT 2015


On Thursday, May 07, 2015 11:07:08 AM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 May 2015 17:16:35 Suravee Suthikulanit wrote:
> > On 5/6/2015 5:21 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >>>> > >>+      bool
> > >>>> > >>+
> > >>>> > >>+config ACPI_SUPPORT_CCA_ZERO
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > >I guess this means "we support devices that can DMA, but are not coherent".
> > >>> > >right?
> > >> >
> > >> >Yes, basically when _CCA=0.
> > > So what about
> > >
> > >       ARCH_SUPPORT_CACHE_INCOHERENT_DMA
> > 
> > Since this is specific to ACPI _CCA, I just want to be clear with the 
> > naming.
> 
> How about directly using the architecture names here, this is inherently
> architecture specific, and it's more likely that if another architecture
> gets added in the future that it will have other requirements.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Rafael




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