[PATCH 0/3 v2] Update ACPI documentation for Arm systems

Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton at arm.com
Tue Jun 6 16:54:35 PDT 2023


Hi,

On 6/6/23 04:35, Jose Marinho wrote:
> This set of patches updates the Linux kernel ACPI documentation for Arm
> systems. The intent is to integrate the developments in the BBR
> specification that happened over the last couple of years.

Thanks for doing this, it has been sorely needed. The changes all look 
good to me too, so:

Reviewed-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>


Now all that said, at some point it will be worthwhile to reopen the 
discussion around a few of the more "controversial" parts of this 
document so they better reflect the current state of machines utilizing 
ACPI.


> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Jeremy Linton <Jeremy.Linton at arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <James.Morse at arm.com>
> Cc: Rob Herring <Rob.Herring at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun at huawei.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-doc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-acpi at vger.kernel.org
> 
> v2:
>   - Clarify that the RAS tables are conditionaly required when ACPI
>     Platform Error Interfaces are required: Hanjun Guo.
>   - Clarify that HMAT is required if NUMA is supported and the system
>     contains heterogeneous memory: Hanjun Guo.
> 
> 
> Jose Marinho (3):
>    Documentation/arm64: Update ARM and arch reference
>    Documentation/arm64: Update references in arm-acpi
>    Documentation/arm64: Update ACPI tables from BBR
> 
>   Documentation/arm64/acpi_object_usage.rst |  81 ++++++++++-
>   Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.rst          | 168 ++++++++++++++--------
>   2 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> 




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list