Re: [PATCH 0/2] Updated SPCR quirks for Moonshot/Mustang

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Aug 04 2017 - 18:52:07 EST


On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Graeme Gregory
<graeme.gregory@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A couple of patches to build on the SPCR quirks support already upstreamed.
>
> 1 - Moonshot m400 cartridge has the same soc but ACPI tables have different
> HPe specific headers so extend quirk to understand those too.
>
> 2 - Relevant vendors do not seem to be working on DBG2/SPCR update for
> situation where the clock is unknown. We want these machines to boot with
> console initialised from SPCR before I die of old age so use the previous
> quirk handling to also handle the clock problem as well.

It increasingly seems to me that spcr.c firmly belongs in
drivers/acpi/arm64/. Any chance to move it in there and then mess up
with it further?

Thanks,
Rafael