10 Feb
2020
10 Feb
'20
12:13 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 7:43 PM Michał Stanek mst@semihalf.com wrote:
Actually it is a GPIO offset in ACPI tables for Braswell that was hardcoded in the old firmware to match the previous (consecutive) Linux GPIO numbering.
That's bad practice by the firmware authors. (Sad face)
We have enough problem saving ourselves from our own legacy ABIs without someone handling out more guns to shoot oneself in the foot with. :(
I'm also speaking on behalf of Microsoft and others in this I think. In the past we would find Windowsisms in the BIOSes and get really annoyed that we had to work around them. Now there are Linuxisms in the BIOS, that's not any better.
Yours, Linus Walleij