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diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt b/Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..805025940248 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ + +In order to support ACPI open-ended hardware configurations (e.g. development +boards) we need a way to augment the ACPI configuration provided by the firmware +image. A common example is connecting sensors on I2C / SPI buses on development +boards. + +Although this can be accomplished by creating a kernel platform driver or +recompiling the firmware image with updated ACPI tables, neither is practical: +the former proliferates board specific kernel code while the latter requires +access to firmware tools which are often not publicly available. + +Because ACPI supports external references in AML code a more practical +way to augment firmware ACPI configuration is by dynamically loading +user defined SSDT tables that contain the board specific information. + +For example, to enumerate a Bosch BMA222E accelerometer on the I2C bus of the +Minnowboard MAX development board exposed via the LSE connector [1], the +following ASL code can be used: + +DefinitionBlock ("minnowmax.aml", "SSDT", 1, "Vendor", "Accel", 0x00000003) +{ + External (\_SB.I2C6, DeviceObj) + + Scope (\_SB.I2C6) + { + Device (STAC) + { + Name (_ADR, Zero) + Name (_HID, "BMA222E") + + Method (_CRS, 0, Serialized) + { + Name (RBUF, ResourceTemplate () + { + I2cSerialBus (0x0018, ControllerInitiated, 0x00061A80, + AddressingMode7Bit, "\\_SB.I2C6", 0x00, + ResourceConsumer, ,) + GpioInt (Edge, ActiveHigh, Exclusive, PullDown, 0x0000, + "\\_SB.GPO2", 0x00, ResourceConsumer, , ) + { // Pin list + 0 + } + }) + Return (RBUF) + } + } + } +} + +which can then be compiled to AML binary format: + +$ iasl minnowmax.asl + +Intel ACPI Component Architecture +ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20140214-64 [Mar 29 2014] +Copyright (c) 2000 - 2014 Intel Corporation + +ASL Input: minnomax.asl - 30 lines, 614 bytes, 7 keywords +AML Output: minnowmax.aml - 165 bytes, 6 named objects, 1 executable opcodes + +[1] http://wiki.minnowboard.org/MinnowBoard_MAX#Low_Speed_Expansion_Connector_.28Top.29 + +The resulting AML code can then be loaded by the kernel using one of the methods +below. + +== Loading ACPI SSDTs from initrd == + +This option allows loading of user defined SSDTs from initrd and it is useful +when the system does not support EFI or when there is not enough EFI storage. + +It works in a similar way with initrd based ACPI tables override/upgrade: SSDT +aml code must be placed in the first, uncompressed, initrd under the +"kernel/firmware/acpi" path. Multiple files can be used and this will translate +in loading multiple tables. Only SSDT and OEM tables are allowed. See +initrd_table_override.txt for more details. + +Here is an example: + +# Add the raw ACPI tables to an uncompressed cpio archive. +# They must be put into a /kernel/firmware/acpi directory inside the +# cpio archive. +# The uncompressed cpio archive must be the first. +# Other, typically compressed cpio archives, must be +# concatenated on top of the uncompressed one. +mkdir -p kernel/firmware/acpi +cp ssdt.aml kernel/firmware/acpi + +# Create the uncompressed cpio archive and concatenate the original initrd +# on top: +find kernel | cpio -H newc --create > /boot/instrumented_initrd +cat /boot/initrd >>/boot/instrumented_initrd |