Subject: [PATCH v7 00/17] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1

From: [email-masked] (Jon Masters)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:58:44 -0500

On 01/14/2015 10:04 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is the v7 of ACPI core patches for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1
> 
> updates from v6:
>   - Rebased on top of 3.19-rc4, add Mack Salter's patch to use
>     the early_ioremap after paging_init() for ACPI table mappings;
> 
>   - Two patches about converting apic_id to phys_id to make it arch
>     agnostic were already merged into RC4 by Rafael.
> 
>   - Split patch "Parse FADT table to get PSCI flags for PSCI init"
>     into two as Lorenzo's suggestion, also fix typo and lack of __init
>     for psci_0_2_set_functions() which is spotted by Lorenzo.
> 
>   - Add Tested-by from Yijing Wang.
> 
> previous version is here:
> v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/4/40
> 
> 1. Why we need ACPI on ARM64?
> 
>   - Grant already posted a blog about this, and stated clearly
>     why we need ACPI on ARM64:
> 
>     http://www.secretlab.ca/archives/151
> 
> 
> 2. What we need to do before the arm64 ACPI core patches
>    could be merged into the kernel?
> 
>   - Al Stone posted a TODO list and updates v2 for the
>     progress we made:
>     http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg390069.html
> 
>   - so from the progress we can see that we already finished
>     most of the items, and _OSI we got a plan to fix it, RFC
>     patch is on the way.
> 
> 
> This patch set was tested on FVP by Fuwei, and booted ok as expected.
> (No functional change since last version)

For the entire series:

Tested-by: Jon Masters <[email-masked]>