the following patch was just integrated into master: commit d7cb8d074f4a9e437ed897ac596ca794698b38c9 Author: Duncan Laurie dlaurie@chromium.org Date: Wed May 15 15:03:57 2013 -0700
lynxpoint: Change SerialIO device enable reporting to ACPI
In order to report whether coreboot enabled a SerialIO device in ACPI mode we had been relying on reading NVS in the _STA method for the SerialIO device.
The ACPI _STA method has restrictions on what it can access and is unable to access OperationRegions outside its scope which means it should not be trying to read NVS.
This change adds a new SSDT to the ACPI tables and fills it with constants that indicate whether or not a device is enabled in ACPI mode.
The ACPI code is changed to read these variables from the SSDT and use that instead of trying to query a variable in NVS.
Attempt to use lpt-clk driver to probe the device clocks for SerialIO devices and see that the kernel does not complain about accessing the GNVS region.
Change-Id: I8538bee4390daed4ecca679496ab0cb313f174ce Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie dlaurie@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/51369 Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/4170 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/4170 for details.
-gerrit