[PATCH v9 21/21] ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu Mar 5 10:54:18 PST 2015


On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:40:01PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> From: Al Stone <al.stone at linaro.org>
> 
> Two more documentation files are also being added:
> (1) A verbatim copy of the "Why ACPI on ARM?" blog posting by Grant Likely,
>     which is also summarized in arm-acpi.txt, and

This doesn't belong in the kernel tree.

> (2) A section by section review of the ACPI spec (acpi_object_usage.txt)
>     to note recommendations and prohibitions on the use of the numerous
>     ACPI tables and objects.  This sets out the current expectations of
>     the firmware by Linux very explicitly (or as explicitly as I can, for
>     now).

I'll follow up with any comments on this separately (I.e. haven't read it yet).


-Olof



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