On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:00:20PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Tuesday 10 December 2013, Mark Brown wrote:
It's not just the SoC, it's also the rest of the board. The patches the Intel guys are submitting at the minute are mainly for the off-SoC devices at least as far as I noticed. This'll impact anyone who ends up using ACPI, we need to at least pay attention to what's going on there.
Yes, but I'm not that worried about off-soc stuff, which tends to be off the much simpler variety: a few MMIO or PIO registers, IRQs, GPIOs or (with ACPI-5.0) devices on i2c and spi buses.
That's not my experience especially once you get into phone type hardware - there's not much complexity difference when gluing things into the system and the fact that it's connected by the board increases the amount of flexibility that has to be coped with. I don't see a substantial difference between the two cases. To be honest I'm a bit concerned about what we're going to see given where ACPI's at as a spec.