[RFC PATCH v3 00/17] RISC-V: ACPI: Add external interrupt controller support

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

Hi,

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> Hi Rafael,
>
> I found that _DEP is better than fw_devlink for ACPI since it works
> during scan itself. For ex: the way PCI host bridges are scanned in
> ACPI, PNP device handling. While some hacky solution could be done like
> I did in v3 (pnp_irq() changes), _DEP way seems much better.
>
> So, we decided to go with your suggested approach and defined namespace
> devices for PLIC and APLIC required to create dependency mechanism.
> However, there are concerns that every device will have to add _DEP now
> and whether it is intended for this use case. Also, actually the
> dependency is already available in the form of GSI number mapping.
> Hence, instead of explicit dependency, we would like to create implicit
> dependency. So, I will send RFC v4 series with those changes. Please
> help us with feedback. If you could provide quick high level go/no-go,
> that will help us a lot since we need to finalize the spec whether to
> mandate _DEP or not.
>
> I request you to provide some high level feedback in the RFC v4 I am
> going to send.

I will, thank you!