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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] ata: add AMD Seattle platform driver
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Hi Arnd,

On 02/05/2016 11:23 AM, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> }
>>>
>>> Windows driver folks were okay to look at second resource field to map the SGPIO register and program the
>>> registers to blink the LEDs. I think as per ACPI spec, its legal to pass more than one block in resource
>>> template and since AML method is not mandatory for non standard enclosure management hence its entirely
>>> possible that some BIOS vendors may not implement it at all. But if they implement and decide
>>> to expose either AML method or register map but not both then Windows driver may break.
>>
>> I don't have access to the Windows source code. Is this in the
>> architecture-independent part of their kernel, or only done on ARM64?
>> How do they decide what the second memory range is for?
>>
>> If this is now a de-facto extension to the PCI_CLASS_STORAGE_SATA_AHCI binding,
>> it should probably be put into the next version of the AHCI spec, and then
>> there is no problem using it.
>>
> I don't have Windows code either and do not know the implementation details. I was told by the AMD folks
> working on Windows drivers for Seattle that they do not need any changes in BIOS DSDT to get the LEDs blinking.
>
> This is not a de-facto extension of SATA_AHCI binding, you can call this method as a SoC hack to support the LEDs.
> We are working with whatever BIOS is already available to enable the LEDs blinking.
>

I am not sure what I can do next, given the SoC and BIOS limitation it seems like platform driver is best choice to enable this feature.
Do you have any review feedback on driver itself ? if not, then can we get this patch in?

-Brijesh

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