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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 18/18] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64
On 2015年01月05日 19:05, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 09:39:24AM +0000, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> On 2014年12月25日 01:18, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> In addition to the above and _DSD requirements/banning, I would also add
>>> some clear statements around:
>>>
>>> _OSC: only global/published capabilities are allowed. For
>>> device-specific _OSC we need a process or maybe we can ban them entirely
>>> and rely on _DSD once we clarify the process.
>>>
>>> _OSI: firmware must not check for certain _OSI strings. Here I'm not
>>> sure what we would have to do for ARM Linux. Reporting "Windows" does
>>> not make any sense but not reporting anything can, as Matthew Garrett
>>> pointed out, can be interpreted by firmware as "Linux". In addition to
>>> any statements in this document, I suggest you patch
>>> drivers/acpi/acpica/utosi.c accordingly, maybe report "Linux" for ARM
>>> and print a kernel warning so that we notice earlier.
>>>
>>> ACPI_OS_NAME: this is globally defined as "Microsoft Windows NT". It
>>> doesn't make much sense in the ARM context. Could we change it to
>>> "Linux" when CONFIG_ARM64?

I think we can introduce a Kconfig such as CONFIG_ACPI_OS_NAME_LINUX,
selected by ARM64 and change ACPI_OS_NAME to "Linux" when
CONFIG_ACPI_OS_NAME_LINUX defined. (we can not add CONFIG_ARM64 in
ACPICA code directly since it will be used by windows too)

some code like below:

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index b1f9a20..de567a3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
config ARM64
def_bool y
+ select ACPI_OS_NAME_LINUX if ACPI
select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE
select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
index 8951cef..11a10ac 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
@@ -369,6 +369,10 @@ config ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE_ONLY

If you are unsure what to do, do not enable this option.

+config ACPI_OS_NAME_LINUX
+ bool "Using Linux for _OS method" if EXPERT
+ def_bool n
+
source "drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig"

config ACPI_EXTLOG
diff --git a/include/acpi/acconfig.h b/include/acpi/acconfig.h
index 5a0a3e5..db5e13e 100644
--- a/include/acpi/acconfig.h
+++ b/include/acpi/acconfig.h
@@ -69,7 +69,11 @@
* code that will not execute the _OSI method unless _OS matches the
string
* below. Therefore, change this string at your own risk.
*/
+#ifndef ACPI_OS_NAME_USING_LINUX
#define ACPI_OS_NAME "Microsoft Windows NT"
+#else
+#define ACPI_OS_NAME "Linux"
+#endif

/* Maximum objects in the various object caches */

diff --git a/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
b/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
index 1ba7c19..45d51d2 100644
--- a/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
+++ b/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@
#define ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE 1
#endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_OS_NAME_LINUX
+#define ACPI_OS_NAME_USING_LINUX 1
+#endif
+
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
>>
>> We will work on this both on ASWG and linux ACPI driver side, as Dong
>> and Charles pointed out, _OSI things can be solved in ACPI spec, when
>> that is done, we can modify the kernel driver to fix the problems above.
>
> Which driver?

the ACPICA core driver as you suggested, sorry for the confusion.

>
> What about ACPI_OS_NAME? Would you suggest it is fine to report
> "Microsoft Windows NT" on an ARM system? That _OS_ not _OSI.

No, not at all. I prefer "Linux"
In include/acpi/acconfig.h, when ACPI_OS_NAME defined, it says:
"OS name, used for the _OS object. The _OS object is essentially
obsolete,..."
for some legacy reasons, we needed "Microsoft Windows NT", but ACPI
for ARM64 on linux is totally new, I think we can change it to
"Linux" when CONFIG_ARM64 as you suggested.

Thanks
Hanjun


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