[Fw_Os_Forum] ACPI EC SMBus controller query handling

[Mielicki, Lukasz]

Hello Armin,
It's been a long time I was looking into this, but you might be right the platform behavior could be non-compliant.

Per 5.6.4.1.2 Dispatching to an ACPI-Aware Device Driver (ACPI 6.1):

"If there is no device driver to handle specific queries, OEM AML code can perform OEMspecific functions that are customized to each event on the particular platform by including specific control methods in the namespace to handle these events.
...
Similarly, for an SMBus driver, if no driver registers for SMBus alarms, the SMBus driver will queue control methods to handle these. Methods must be placed under the SMBus device..."

So, I would say _Qxx on SMBus device should only be invoked if no OS device driver registered for the event.

Note, since both OS software and ACPI Code (AML) may need to access SMBus devices, the interop originally devised is for the OS driver to implement SMBus type OperationRegion which gives AML access to SMBus slave (See 13.2.3 Declaring SMBus Operation Regions).

Regards,
Lukasz 

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From: fw_os_forum-bounces at mailman.uefi.org <fw_os_forum-bounces at mailman.uefi.org> On Behalf Of Armin Wolf
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2023 01:32
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Subject: [Fw_Os_Forum] ACPI EC SMBus controller query handling

Hello,

while writing a driver for the ACPI EC SMBus controller (ACPI0001/ACPI0005), i stumbled upon a issue for which i found no solution in the current ACPI specification.

When the ACPI EC issues the query associated with the ACPI EC SMBus controller, should either:
- only the custom handler be executed
- both the custom handler and the corresponding _Qxx method be executed (which one first?)

On my machine containing the aforementioned ACPI0001 device, the _Qxx method associated with the ACPI EC SMBus basically resets all SMBus alert events, which AFAIK is not normal behavior.
What would be the standard-compliant behaviour in such a case?

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

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