Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:27:51 +0000 | From | Matt Fleming <> | Subject | Re: arm64/efi handling of persistent memory |
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On Fri, 18 Dec, at 11:52:24AM, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:06:51AM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:33:25AM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) wrote: > > > Similar to the questions about the arm64 efi boot stub > > > handing persistent memory, some of the arm64 kernel code > > > looks fishy. > > [...] > > > > 2. is_reserve_region() treating EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY the same > > > as EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY looks wrong. > > > > Yeah... That one was introduced by > > ad5fb870c486 ("e820, efi: add ACPI 6.0 persistent memory types") > > without any ACKs from ARM people :/ > > Do we need to do anythign to avoid his kind of thing in future? e.g. a > MAINTAINERS patch for the ARM EFI bits? > > Or do we just need to pay attention to linux-efi?
It never hit linux-efi, and I wasn't Cc'd, which means the entries that do exist in MAINTAINERS were ignored anyway.
Because what would usually happens in that situation is that I would ask ARM people to chime in.
It looks like all the NVDIMM changes came via Dan's nvdimm tree.
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