[PATCH v2 12/39] dm: core: Add basic ACPI support

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 09:44:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) is an Intel standard

Not Intel for a long time. Or more precisely, not *only* Intel.

Also this should be corrected (I guess dropping Intel would work) everywhere in
this series.

> for specifying information about a platform.

> It is a little like device
> tree but considerably more complicated and with more backslashes.

For what purpose this passage?
Isn't the same reason why ARM64 choose ACPI to be supported for servers?

> A
> primary difference is that it supports an interpreted bytecode language.
> 
> Driver model does not use ACPI for U-Boot's configuration, but it is
> convenient to have it support generation of ACPI tables for passing to
> Linux, etc.
> 
> As a starting point, add an optional set of ACPI operations to each
> device. Initially only a single operation is available, to obtain the
> ACPI name for the device. More operations are added later.
> 
> Enable ACPI for sandbox to ensure build coverage and so that we can add
> tests.

...

> +/* Length of an ACPI name string, excluding nul terminator */
> +#define ACPI_NAME_LEN	4
> +
> +/* Length of an ACPI name string including nul terminator */
> +#define ACPI_NAME_MAX	5

Do we really need two definitions?

...

> +	/* Intel Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) */

Same as above for commit message.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko