On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:35:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Exactly. In particular we don't want people to get the wrong idea about where we are heading, so making it possible to use this code on embedded systems for me is a reason *not* to take the patch.
People are trying to deploy ACPI-based embedded x86, and most of the ACPI/DT integration discussion seems to have been based on the idea that this is a worthwhile thing to support. If we're not interested in doing so then we should probably make that a whole kernel decision rather than a per architecture one.