[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] ACPI vs DT

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:

> Using ACPI does not work well for Super-IO chips - the chips are way too complex
> to handle with ACPI (or at least that is how it seems), and the available ACPI
> bindings are too limited. For example, a Super-IO chip may have dozens of
> registers to program sophistitaced fan control. If accessed through ACPI,
> all one can typically do is to turn a fan on or off.

I was more thinking along the lines of atleast defining the base address
or IO-port in the ACPI DSDT, not trying to abstract everything and its
dog. Isn't it possible to just have ACPI provide some basics?

Yours,
Linus Walleij