Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] arm64: Add support for KVM with ACPI

[Julien Grall]

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,

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Julien Grall