Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Armada8k enable per-port SATA interrupts and drop a hack in the IRQ subsystem

Unfortunately ACPI doesn't describe how the SFP cages are connected.

Nor MDIO busses and Ethernet PHYs.

ACPI is missing a lot of support for basic elements of networking. I
guess this is because it expects firmware in the NIC to be controlling
these parts, not Linux.

As soon as GPIOs and I2C busses are involved device trees are so much
better than ACPI

Yes, ACPI has along way to go before it is usable for SoCs with
integrated Ethernet.

	   Andrew