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Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size"

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On 17/03/16 15:37, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 09:49:51AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:

[...]

>> Keep in mind that on an ACPI system like ours, the boot loader (UEFI in our
>> case) configures the system extensively.  It does a lot of things that the
>> kernel would normally do on a device tree system.  For example, pin control
>> is handled completely by UEFI.  The kernel does not set the pin muxes or
>> GPIO directions.  That means we don't support dynamic pin muxing.  Before
>> the kernel is booted, the GPIO pins are fixed.
> 
> And that's great. But you are mistaken in thinking that DT requires lots
> of drivers in the kernel and prevents the firmware from doing sane
> stuff. DT rather gained additional features out of necessity since the
> firmware was not always doing a proper job at hardware initialisation.
> A DT-enabled kernel does not impose restrictions on such firmware
> features. With ACPI, the choice is not as wide and forces vendors to
> look into their firmware story from a different angle (until they figure
> the _DSD+PRP0001 out and we end up with DT emulated in ACPI).

Or even worse, perverting the couple of things that were actually OK in
ACPI by inventing a new layer of broken stuff:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.msm/17828

Once we've reached that level, _DSD fells all nice and cuddly.

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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[PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> - 2016-03-16 11:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 11:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-16 14:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 15:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 15:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 16:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 15:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-16 16:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 15:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-17 16:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 16:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 17:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-17 19:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 19:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" "Chalamarla, Tirumalesh" <Tirumalesh.Chalamarla@caviumnetworks.com> - 2016-03-18 22:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 03:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-03-21 18:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-03-21 18:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" "Chalamarla, Tirumalesh" <Tirumalesh.Chalamarla@caviumnetworks.com> - 2016-03-21 18:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: Increase the max granular size" Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-03-21 18:40 +0100

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