- Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20191018
including:
* Fixes for Clang warnings (Bob Moore).
* Fix for possible overflow in get_tick_count() (Bob Moore).
* Introduction of acpi_unload_table() (Bob Moore).
* Debugger and utilities updates (Erik Schmauss).
* Fix for unloading tables loaded via configfs (Nikolaus Voss).
- Add support for EFI specific purpose memory to optionally allow
either application-exclusive or core-kernel-mm managed access to
differentiated memory (Dan Williams).
- Fix and clean up processing of the HMAT table (Brice Goglin,
Qian Cai, Tao Xu).
- Update the ACPI EC driver to make it work on systems with
hardware-reduced ACPI (Daniel Drake).
- Always build in support for the Generic Event Device (GED) to
allow one kernel binary to work both on systems with full
hardware ACPI and hardware-reduced ACPI (Arjan van de Ven).
- Fix the table unload mechanism to unregister platform devices
created when the given table was loaded (Andy Shevchenko).
- Rework the lid blacklist handling in the button driver and add
more lid quirks to it (Hans de Goede).
- Improve ACPI-based device enumeration for some platforms based
on Intel BayTrail SoCs (Hans de Goede).
- Add an OpRegion driver for the Cherry Trail Crystal Cove PMIC
and prevent handlers from being registered for unhandled PMIC
OpRegions (Hans de Goede).
- Unify ACPI _HID/_UID matching (Andy Shevchenko).
- Clean up documentation and comments (Cao jin, James Pack, Kacper
Piwiński).