Re: [PATCH] ARM: shmobile: r8a7740: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Dec 18 2014 - 03:14:53 EST


Hi Simon,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 02:20:09PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 17/12/14 13:40, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > As of commit 9a1091ef0017c40a ("irqchip: gic: Support hierarchy irq
>> > domain."), armadillo-legacy hangs during boot with:

> can I confirm that you would like me to pick this up - there are a lot of
> changes flying around at the moment? If so would you like it considered as
> a fix for v3.19 and stable? If so I will need some information about what
> patch introduced the problem in which release. If not can you state why?

The above-mentioned commit will be in v3.19-rc1. So getting it in
v3.19 only sounds
fine (unless you want to backport the IRQ domain breakage to 3.14-ltsi ;-)

Thanks!

> The reason for requesting such information is so that I can pass it on to
> the ARM SoC maintainers so it is clear to them how to handle the patch and
> why.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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