[PATCH 04/40] arm: Allow supporting ACPI-table generation

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 05:49:54PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > Date: Wed,  1 Dec 2021 09:02:38 -0700
> > 
> > Some ARM boards are using ACPI now. It seems that U-Boot should support
> > this method. Add ARM to the list of archs which can generate ACPI tables.
> 
> Can you explain why you think U-Boot should care?
> 
> Because I think promoting ACPI as a viable firmware interface for the
> type of boards supported by U-Boot would be a serious mistake...

Given the large overlap of SoCs that support both SystemReady IR and
SystemReady ES, I asked Simon how hard it would be to pass ACPI tables,
instead of DTB.  Are there going to be some challenges to be able to get
ES certified under U-Boot?  Certainly.  But I'm not convinced that
U-Boot is just a wrong-fit for the ES case when part of the whole point
of these certifications is that it doesn't matter what's implementing
it, it's a standard.

-- 
Tom
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