Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755187AbbLVQhH (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:37:07 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33673 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752673AbbLVQhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:37:05 -0500 Message-ID: <56797C16.2020802@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:36:38 -0500 From: Jon Masters Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriele Paoloni , Arnd Bergmann CC: Tomasz Nowicki , "bhelgaas@google.com" , "will.deacon@arm.com" , "catalin.marinas@arm.com" , "rjw@rjwysocki.net" , "hanjun.guo@linaro.org" , "Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com" , "okaya@codeaurora.org" , "jiang.liu@linux.intel.com" , "Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com" , "robert.richter@caviumnetworks.com" , "mw@semihalf.com" , "Liviu.Dudau@arm.com" , "ddaney@caviumnetworks.com" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , Wangyijing , "Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com" , "msalter@redhat.com" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org" , "jchandra@broadcom.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors against platfrom specific quirks. References: <1450278993-12664-1-git-send-email-tn@semihalf.com> <1450278993-12664-23-git-send-email-tn@semihalf.com> <201512211510.32029.arnd@arndb.de> <335CDE2E-B588-43A8-8665-6023AFD0EA04@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1806 Lines: 38 On 12/22/2015 04:29 AM, Gabriele Paoloni wrote: > Hi Jon, thanks for replying > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jon Masters [mailto:jcm@redhat.com] >> Sent: 21 December 2015 23:11 >> To: Arnd Bergmann >> Cc: Gabriele Paoloni; Tomasz Nowicki; bhelgaas@google.com; >> will.deacon@arm.com; catalin.marinas@arm.com; rjw@rjwysocki.net; >> hanjun.guo@linaro.org; Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com; okaya@codeaurora.org; >> jiang.liu@linux.intel.com; Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com; >> robert.richter@caviumnetworks.com; mw@semihalf.com; Liviu.Dudau@arm.com; >> ddaney@caviumnetworks.com; tglx@linutronix.de; Wangyijing; >> Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com; msalter@redhat.com; linux- >> pci@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; linux- >> acpi@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linaro- >> acpi@lists.linaro.org; jchandra@broadcom.com >> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space >> accessors against platfrom specific quirks. >> >> Sorry for top-posting. A quick note that SMBIOS3 is required by SBBR so >> it can be presumed that compliant platforms will provide quirks via DMI. > > Ok so you completely clarified my question 1). Many Thanks for this No problem. One of the (many) reasons I pushed for requiring SMBIOS/DMI in SBBR (I was lead author of one of the early drafts of that document) was to make the experience ultimately equivalent across architectures. We already know how to do quirks and handle platform deviations, and the major Operating System vendors did not want to reinvent the wheel. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/