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Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding.

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Hi David,

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:11 AM, David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> On 08/07/2015 05:05 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

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>>
>> It is actually useful to people as far as I can say.
>>
>> Also, if somebody is going to use properties with ACPI, why whould
>> they use a different set of properties with DT?
>>
>> Wouldn't it be more reasonable to use the same set in both cases?
>
>
> Yes, but there is still quite a bit of leeway to screw things up.

That I have to agree with, unfortunately.

On the other hand, this is a fairly new concept and we need to gain
some experience with it to be able to come up with best practices and
so on.  Cases like yours are really helpful here.

> FWIW:  http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/nic-request-v2.pdf
>
> This actually seems to have been adopted by the UEFI people as a
> "Standard", I am not sure where a record of this is kept though.

Work on this is in progress, but far from completion.  Essentially,
what's needed is more pressure from vendors who want to use properties
in their firmware.

> So, we are changing our firmware to use this standard (which is quite
> similar the the DT with respect to MAC addresses).

Cool. :-)

Thanks,
Rafael
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[PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> - 2015-08-07 02:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org> - 2015-08-07 10:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Robert Richter <robert.richter@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-08-07 12:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org> - 2015-08-07 13:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org> - 2015-08-07 14:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-08-07 18:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-08-08 13:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2015-08-07 16:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2015-08-07 20:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2015-08-08 02:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2015-08-08 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2015-08-07 20:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. Graeme Gregory <gg@slimlogic.co.uk> - 2015-08-07 17:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] net, thunder, bgx: Add support for ACPI binding. "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2015-08-08 02:40 +0200

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