Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] ACPI / containers : add support for ACPI0010 processor container

[Sudeep Holla]

On 08/05/15 15:06, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, May 08, 2015 04:50:10 PM Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > Hi Sudeep,
> >
> > On 2015å05æ06æ 22:31, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > > ACPI 6.0 adds support for optional processor container device which may
> > > contain child objects that are either processor devices or other processor
> > > containers. This allows representing hierarchical processor topologies.
> > >
> > > It is declared using the _HID of ACPI0010. It may also have _CID of
> > > PNP0A05, which represents a generic container device.
> >
> > Container device helps support hotplug of nodes, CPUs, and memory,
> > does this container device ACPI0010 used for the same purpose?
>
> That's correct and the patch isn't.

Thanks Rafael for the clarification.

Just curious if the firmware adds _CID of PNP0A05 to support OS that
don't parse processor containers, will the current code not create
containers using _CID ?

Regards,
Sudeep
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