[PATCH v8 00/21] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1

[Hanjun Guo]

On 2015年02月05日 04:29, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 02/02/2015 06:45 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is the v8 of ACPI core patches for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1, there
>> are
>> some updates since v7:
>
> All 21 patches:
>
> Tested-by: Timur Tabi <timur at codeaurora.org>

Hi Timur, thank you very much :)

>
> I no longer need to use "acpi=force", so that's nice.
>
>>
>>   - Add two more documantation to explain why we need ACPI in ARM64
>> servers
>
> "documentation"
>
>
>>     by Grant, and recommendations and prohibitions on the use of the
>> numerous
>>     ACPI tables and objects by Al Stone.
>>
>>   - Add two patches which is need to map acpi tables after
>> acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap
>>     is set
>>
>>   - Add another patch "dt / chosen: Add linux,uefi-stub-generated-dtb
>> property"
>>     to address that if firmware providing no dtb, we can try ACPI
>> configuration data
>>     even if no "acpi=force" is passed in early parameters. (I think
>> ACPI for XEN and
>>     kexec need consider sperately as disscussed, correct me if I'm
>> wrong).
>
> "need to be considered separately", "discussed"
>
>>
>>   - Add CC in the patch to the subsystem maintainers and modify the
>> subject
>>     of the patch to explicitly show the subsystem touched by this
>> patch set,
>>     please help us to review and ack them if they make sense, thanks.
>>
>>   - Add Tested-by from Qualcomm and Redhat;
>>
>>   - Make ACPI depends on PCI suggested by Catalin;
>>
>>   - Clean up SMP init function as Lorenzo suggested, remove physical
>>     CPU hot-plug code in the patch;
>>
>>   - Address some comments from Marc and explicitly state that will
>>     implment statcked irqdomain and GIC init framework when GICv3 and
>
> "implement", "stacked"

Sorry for that, I'm not a native English speaker but I'm glad that you
you got the meaning of what I said :)

Thank you again for the test.

Hanjun