[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 7/7] x86: acpi: Don't touch hardware on HW reduced platforms

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Tue Jul 25 18:12:48 UTC 2017


On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 08:48 +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:

> > > I assume this is needed on Intel Edison.
> > 
> > Actually it has very little with Edison, though I had stumbled over
> > the bug on that platform.
> > 
> > ARM64 support, if any will come, or I even can suggest to try ASUS
> > T100 transformer (Baytrail based HW reduced).
> > 
> 
> Just out of curiosity, if the ASUS T100 transformer is BayTrail based,
> why is that HW reduced? My understanding is that BayTrail has these
> ACPI registers.

Yeah, I don't know the reason why, but the decision had been made by
department without our team involvement. So, they make it HW reduced and
BIOS also had been adapted for this.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy


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