[coreboot] [PATCH] Add the AML code generator for runtime code generation

[Stefan Reinauer]

ron minnich wrote:
> Another question.
>
> Were we to follow the device object model, isn't it more proper to add
> a new device_operations struct member to devices to generate ACPI?
> Then we add another pass to the device code which walks the tree and
> each device can optionally create ACPI as it needs to. The first
> object is the mainboard, and this could do all the initial setup for
> the AML code generation.
>   
The idea is definitely sound. But we're many steps before that, still.
With our device model, and with our ACPI support.

There are large portions of a DSDT that are "not just the device tree",
but a lot more. We can start feeding that stuff into our device tree.
That's a thing I was yelling about already, too. But then we have a
complicated device tree and a complicated generator. Seeing the
complexity of ACPI in all its shades, I am slightly, temporarily scared

> If we had this I think the weak symbol would not be needed. 

Absolutely. But it means creating a new framework that is much more
enhanced than what we have today.

> This would
> drop very nicely in to v3: I would add a phase7_acpi struct member to
> device_operations.
>   
It does sound a bit like v4. This is why it is so good.


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