Re: [PATCH v9 09/21] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce early_param "acpi=" to enable/disable ACPI

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Thu Mar 05 2015 - 13:11:29 EST


On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:39:49PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> From: Al Stone <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This implements the following policy to decide whether ACPI should
> be used to boot the system:
> - acpi=off: ACPI will not be used to boot the system, even if there is
> no alternative available (e.g., device tree is empty)
> - acpi=force: only ACPI will be used to boot the system; if that fails,
> there will be no fallback to alternative methods (such as device tree)
> - otherwise, ACPI will be used as a fallback if the device tree turns out
> to lack a platform description; the heuristic to decide this is whether
> /chosen is the only node present at depth 1
>
> CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>



-Olof
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