Re: [PATCH v11 00/10] arm64, numa: Add numa support for arm64 platforms

[Robert Richter]

On 20.02.16 09:20:05, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 20 February 2016 at 02:13, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > v11:
> >         - Dropped cleanup patches for other architectures, they will be
> >           submitted as a separate set after more testing.
> >
> >         - Added patch set from Ard Biesheuvel that are needed to make
> >           the whole thing actually work.  Previously this was a
> >           separate set.
> >
> 
> This series is out of date, unfortunately. The EFI init code is now
> (as of v4.5-rc1) shared between ARM and arm64, which means that any
> changes you make must be made on both sides. This applies to the split
> between parsing the EFI dt nodes and performing the actual EFI init,
> but also to the early_init_dt_add_memory_arch() changes. I am happy to
> have a go at this, but first I need a clear statement from whoever
> maintains that area that keeping memory nodes *just* for the
> annotations (and otherwise ignore them) is the way forward (Rob?
> Grant?)

Wasn't there the approach to check for consistency between efi tables
and devicetree? Thus, DT is actually not ignored but rather checked if
it is in sync with efi tables.

-Robert