Hi Bin,

On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 02:42, Bin Meng <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:22 AM Simon Glass <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bin,
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 00:20, Bin Meng <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Simon,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:00 PM Simon Glass <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Intel SoCs support a fairly stardard reset mechanism which can support
> > > > powering off the device. Add support for this and enable it by default 
> > > > on
> > > > broadwell, which already has the necessary pm.h header file.
> > > >
> > > > This driver augments the standard x86 sysreset driver.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think we need update the existing sysreset_x86 driver to support
> > > SYSRESET_POWER_OFF, instead of creating a new driver to do such.
> > >
> > > We can add a new PCH ioctl code to get the pmbase, and do the ACPI
> > > power off in the sysreset_x86 driver.
> >
> > So are you saying that the registers are the same for all x86 chips?
> > From what I can tell, the offsets vary.
>
> Yes, the offsets might be different, so instead of getting only the
> pmbase, we need do something like getting ACPI PM register block
> information from the PCH driver. That's how acpi_create_fadt() passes
> ACPI register block information to the OS.

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If the register layout is
different, why not just use different drivers?

I suppose we could put the common code (with parameters) in a separate
file and call it from the driver. The parameters would presumably be:

PMBASE
GPE0_EN(0)
PM1_STS
PM1_CNT

Regards,
Simon
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