[RFC] ECDT support in early stage

2015-09-29 Thread Zheng, Lv
There are many ECDT quirks in drivers/acpi/ec.c. I tracked the commit log back to learn what was happening on each ECDT related commits. My observation result is: For ACPI 2.0+ compliant platforms, where ECDT may be introduced, the BIOSes that contain the ECDT will make the named object's value

[RFC] ECDT support in early stage

2015-09-29 Thread Zheng, Lv
There are many ECDT quirks in drivers/acpi/ec.c. I tracked the commit log back to learn what was happening on each ECDT related commits. My observation result is: For ACPI 2.0+ compliant platforms, where ECDT may be introduced, the BIOSes that contain the ECDT will make the named object's value