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[PATCH 19/19] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64

From: Christoffer Dall <hidden>
Date: 2014-07-29 10:30:53
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 09:00:25PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
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From: Graeme Gregory <redacted>

Add documentation for the guidelines of how to use ACPI
on ARM64.

Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <redacted>
---
 Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt |  240 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 240 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..12cd550
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/arm-acpi.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,240 @@
+ACPI on ARMv8 Servers
+---------------------
[...]
+
+
+There exists in the ACPI 5.1 specification no standard binding for these objects
+to enable programmable levels or rates so this should be avoid if possible and
+the resources set to appropriate level by the firmware. If this is not possible
+then any manipulation should be abstracted in ASL.
+
I'm not a native English speaker, but this wording sounds strange to me.
I would suggest "There exists no specification in the the..." or more
simply "The ACPI 5.1 specification does not contain any standard...".

-Christoffer
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