21 Jun, 2016

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  • The ACPI 6.1 specification was recently released at the end of January
    2016, but the arm64 kernel documentation for the use of ACPI was written
    for the 5.1 version of the spec. There were significant additions to the
    spec that had not yet been mentioned -- for example, the 6.0 mechanisms
    added to make it easier to define processors and low power idle states,
    as well as the 6.1 addition allowing regular interrupts (not just from
    GPIO) be used to signal ACPI general purpose events.

    This patch reflects going back through and examining the specs in detail
    and updating content appropriately. Whilst there, a few odds and ends of
    typos were caught as well. This brings the documentation up to date with
    ACPI 6.1 for arm64.

    Signed-off-by: Al Stone
    Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi
    Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo
    Reviewed-by: Roy Franz
    Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

    Al Stone
     

26 Mar, 2015

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  • One more documentation file are also being added:

    A section by section review of the ACPI spec (acpi_object_usage.txt)
    to note recommendations and prohibitions on the use of the numerous
    ACPI tables and objects. This sets out the current expectations of
    the firmware by Linux very explicitly (or as explicitly as I can, for
    now).

    CC: Suravee Suthikulpanit
    CC: Yi Li
    CC: Mark Langsdorf
    CC: Ashwin Chaugule
    Acked-by: Robert Richter
    Signed-off-by: Al Stone
    Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo
    Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

    Al Stone