[PATCH v5 18/18] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:05:12PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Tuesday 06 January 2015 11:29:29 Catalin Marinas wrote:

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We will work on this both on ASWG and linux ACPI driver side, as Dong
and Charles pointed out, _OSI things can be solved in ACPI spec, when
that is done, we can modify the kernel driver to fix the problems above.

Which driver?

the ACPICA core driver as you suggested, sorry for the confusion.

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What about ACPI_OS_NAME? Would you suggest it is fine to report
"Microsoft Windows NT" on an ARM system? That _OS_ not _OSI.

No, not at all. I prefer "Linux"
In include/acpi/acconfig.h, when ACPI_OS_NAME defined, it says:
"OS name, used for the _OS object.  The _OS object is essentially
obsolete,..."
for some legacy reasons, we needed  "Microsoft Windows NT", but ACPI
for ARM64 on linux is totally new, I think we can change it to
"Linux" when CONFIG_ARM64 as you suggested.

We could ignore this change for now if we don't expect the _OS object to
be used at all. But do we have any other way to check the AML code for
this? Would FWTS catch such obsolete cases?

How about just leaving it out? It's clearly not used for anything
good, so I don't see the point in passing either Linux or "Microsoft
Windows NT" here.

Do you mean defining it to NULL (so it ends up as NULL in
acpi_gbl_pre_defined_names) or removing "_OS_" entirely from that array?
I really can't tell what the implications are.

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Catalin