On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Matthew Garrett mjg59@srcf.ucam.org wrote:
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.
I have only seen Intel doing this, are there more people doing that?
As noted on patch [0/7] I still get patches for embedded x86 which use ISA-style probing for embedded x86, e.g: http://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=138559852307673&w=2
At the same time some people are refining SFI (simple firmware interface) support for GPIO, albeit I think that was for elder embedded x86'es.
Yours, Linus Walleij