[PATCH v3 24/62] arm: Introduce a generic way to use a device from acpi
Julien Grall
julien.grall at citrix.com
Tue Nov 17 06:25:58 PST 2015
On 17/11/15 13:21, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>> AFAICT, it does only works for SPCR table used for UART device. For the
>> GIC you've hardcoded the value and I can't find any version number in
>> the table.
>>
> No, I didn't hardcode the GIC version. Since ACPI 6.0 introduces GIC
> version in generic distributor table, it could get the version from
> that. Please see [PATCH v3 28/62].
+ if ( dist->version == ACPI_MADT_GIC_VERSION_V2 )
+ rc = acpi_device_init(DEVICE_GIC, NULL, GIC_V2);
+ else if ( dist->version == ACPI_MADT_GIC_VERSION_V3 )
+ rc = acpi_device_init(DEVICE_GIC, NULL, GIC_V3);
Every single time a new GIC version will be added, we will had to add
another else if. I'm sorry but it's what I call hardcoding.
Regards,
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Julien Grall
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