Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] arm64: dts: add Hi6220 mailbox node

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 25 August 2015 at 17:37, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:51:22PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> >>    Arm kernel should either fetch memory information from
>> >>    efi or DT.
>> >
>> > Absolutely.
>> >
>> >>    Currently arm kernel fetch both efi memory information and
>> >>    reserved buffer from DTB at the same time.
>> >
>> > No, it does not.
>>
>> It should not, but it does. Due to an oversight, the stub removes
>> /memreserve/ entries but ignores the reserved-memory node completely.
>
> Urgh.
>
>> This was reported here in fact
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/5736/focus=5742
>>
>> but there has not been a followup to this series.
>
> Are all of those patches still relevant, or did some of them go in
> already?
>

The first two patches are in v4.2-rc1 and up, the others should still
apply on top of that.

-- 
Ard.
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