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

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat Aug 05 2017 - 08:29:21 EST


On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Graeme Gregory
<graeme.gregory@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4 August 2017 at 23:51, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> Apparently x86 machines exist with SPCR table.

OK then.