On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 15:13 +0000, Moore, Robert wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Toshi Kani [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 1:55 PM > > To: [email protected]; Williams, Dan J > > Cc: Moore, Robert; Zheng, Lv; [email protected]; [email protected] > > g; > > [email protected]; [email protected]; > > [email protected]; Toshi Kani > > Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] ACPI/NFIT: Update Control Region Structure to > > comply ACPI 6.1 > > > > ACPI 6.1, Table 5-133, updates NVDIMM Control Region Structure as > > follows. > > - Valid Fields, Manufacturing Location, and Manufacturing Date > > are added from reserved range. No change in the structure size. > > - IDs defined as SPD values are arrays of bytes. The spec > > clarified that they need to be represented as arrays of bytes > > as well. > > > > This patch makes the following changes to support this update. > > - Change 'struct acpi_nfit_control_region' to reflect the update. > > SPD IDs are defined as arrays of bytes, so that they can be > > treated in the same way regardless of CPU endianness and are > > not miss-treated as little-endian numeric values. > > > I don't think we are going to start changing the ACPI tables defined in > the ACPICA headers because of this. We do in fact have macros for this > purpose.
Can you elaborate what macros you suggest to use for this purpose? Thanks, -Toshi
