On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware at legeek.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In si_populate_smc_acpi_state function, the acpi (emergency) state is a 
> patched
> version of the initial state. Then 'ACIndex = 0' for the acpi state (i.e.
> setting it to SISLANDS_MCREGISTERTABLE_INITIAL_SLOT) seems misleading, since
> ACIndex is already set to 0 (SISLANDS_MCREGISTERTABLE_INITIAL_SLOT) in
> si_populate_smc_initial_state. That should be removed to avoid confusion.
>
>
> Additionnally, that would mean the acpi state is not using its slot in
> the mc_reg_table, *BUT* it is used by the ulv state! Indeed ACIndex is set to 
> 1
> (SISLANDS_MCREGISTERTABLE_ACPI_SLOT) in si_populate_ulv_state function.
>
> We can see in si_populate_mc_reg_table that initial state, acpi state, ulv
> state and driver state have their respective mc_reg_table slot filled.
>
> Then, the previous code seems to make the ulv mc_reg_table slot unused and
> useless to fill.
>
> Moreover, is not following the SISLANDS_MCREGISTERTABLE_*_SLOT mc_reg_table
> allocation.
>
> Bug?

It looks like we only use slots 0 and 1 and the driver state slots.  I
confirmed catalyst does the same thing.  I suspect there was an
intention to use three states at some point, but it didn't end up
being useful.

Alex

>
> regards,
>
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> Sylvain
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