x86: Add support for ACPI general-purpose events
ACPI GPEs are used to signal interrupts from peripherals that are accessed
via ACPI. In U-Boot these are modelled as interrupts using a separate
interrupt controller. Configuration is via the device tree.
Add a simple driver for this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index b3fbf30..c8eae24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -923,4 +923,37 @@
depends on SPL && X86
default SPL_TEXT_BASE
+config ACPI_GPE
+ bool "Support ACPI general-purpose events"
+ help
+ Enable a driver for ACPI GPEs to allow peripherals to send interrupts
+ via ACPI to the OS. In U-Boot this is only used when U-Boot itself
+ needs access to these interrupts. This can happen when it uses a
+ peripheral that is set up to use GPEs and so cannot use the normal
+ GPIO mechanism for polling an input.
+
+ See https://queue.acm.org/blogposting.cfm?id=18977 for more info
+
+config SPL_ACPI_GPE
+ bool "Support ACPI general-purpose events in SPL"
+ help
+ Enable a driver for ACPI GPEs to allow peripherals to send interrupts
+ via ACPI to the OS. In U-Boot this is only used when U-Boot itself
+ needs access to these interrupts. This can happen when it uses a
+ peripheral that is set up to use GPEs and so cannot use the normal
+ GPIO mechanism for polling an input.
+
+ See https://queue.acm.org/blogposting.cfm?id=18977 for more info
+
+config TPL_ACPI_GPE
+ bool "Support ACPI general-purpose events in TPL"
+ help
+ Enable a driver for ACPI GPEs to allow peripherals to send interrupts
+ via ACPI to the OS. In U-Boot this is only used when U-Boot itself
+ needs access to these interrupts. This can happen when it uses a
+ peripheral that is set up to use GPEs and so cannot use the normal
+ GPIO mechanism for polling an input.
+
+ See https://queue.acm.org/blogposting.cfm?id=18977 for more info
+
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