Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v2 06/18] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT to map logical cpu to MPIDR and get cpu_possible/present_map

[Hanjun Guo]

On 2014-8-20 0:46, Zi Shen Lim wrote:
> Hanjun,

Hi Lim,

> 
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Will INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER confuse people? There is only one GIC redistributor
>> (some people regard it as interrupt controller) in ARM system, if we use
>> INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER people will regard it as multi-redistributors in the
>> system, I think GIC_CPU_INTERFACE would be better, what do you think?
> 
> I think you meant to say "one GIC _distributor_" (GICD) instead of
> redistributor (GICR).
> ACPI5.1 only describes one GICD per system, but we can most certainly
> describe multiple GICRs.
> For multi-cpu systems, you'll definitely see multiple GIC redistributors.

Yes, you are right, thanks for pointing it out, I think I need more coffee :)

Thanks
Hanjun

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