Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] arm64: Add support for KVM with ACPI | From | Julien Grall <> | Date | Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:49:58 +0100 |
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Hi Christoffer,
On 06/04/2016 18:28, Christoffer Dall wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This patch series allows KVM to work with ACPI on ARM64. >> >> Currently, the firmware tables are parsed by the the virtual timer and virtual >> GIC code in order to configure them correctly. >> >> However the parsing of these tables is already done in the GIC and arch timer >> drivers. This patch series introduces new helpers to retrieve the information >> from the different drivers in order to avoid duplication of the parsing code. >> >> To make the merge easier via the different trees, each patch modifies a single >> subsystem. The suggested plan to merge the series is divided in 3 steps: >> >> 1) Patches #1-#2 are merged via the clocksource tree >> Patches #2-#6 are merged via the irqchip tree >> 2) Patches #7-#8 are merge via the KVM tree >> 3) Patch #9 is merged via the clocksource tree. >> > > I'm not a clocksource or irqchip expert, and far from an ACPI expert, > but this series overall looks good to me now. > > I guess we'll need to wait until the patches are in the clocksource and > irqchip trees, and then merge that into the kvmarm tree, and apply patch > 7 and 8 on top, or is there a simpler way to do this?
The simpler way would be carrying all the patches in a single tree (such as the KVM ARM tree). If we are going this way, I would need the ack from all the maintainers in this case.
Regards,
-- Julien Grall
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