Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:34:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Len Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 2.6.32] Simple Firmware Interface (SFI): initial support |
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> > not enthusiastic about seeing this presented as a fait accompli in > > generic driver code, rather than under arch/x86/moorestown. > > Certainly wouldn't be a real problem if it started there and migrated > if/when it proves to be more generic.
There are no drivers in drivers/sfi/, nor will there ever be.
I followed the broken topology used by ACPI, which has both drivers and non-driver-platform-dependent-code in drivers/acpi/.
I did propose fixing ACPI at one point, but there was no consensus on where platform dependent non-driver code that runs on multiple architectures should live. (eg, where to put drivers/acpi/acpica/*)
SFI is largely in the same boat. Though one could argue that all of SFI could live under arch/x86 someplace, though it will be accessed by more than moorestown specific code.
cheers, -Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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