[PATCH v4 13/13] firmware: arm_sdei: Discover SDEI support via ACPI

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Oct 18 04:12:14 PDT 2017


On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 06:44:32PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> SDEI defines a new ACPI table to indicate the presence of the interface.
> The conduit is discovered in the same way as PSCI.
> 
> For ACPI we need to create the platform device ourselves as SDEI doesn't
> have an entry in the DSDT.
> 
> The SDEI platform device should be created after ACPI has been initialised
> so that we can parse the table, but before GHES devices are created, which
> may register SDE events if they use SDEI as their notification type.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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