Re: [v5 1/4] ACPICA: IORT: Add Cavium ThunderX2 SMMUv3 model definition.

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu May 11 2017 - 10:48:59 EST


On Thursday, May 11, 2017 09:45:25 AM Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:26:02AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 05:01:55 PM Geetha sowjanya wrote:
> > > From: Linu Cherian <linu.cherian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Add SMMUv3 model definition for ThunderX2.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Linu Cherian <linu.cherian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Geetha Sowjanya <geethasowjanya.akula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This is an ACPICA change, but you have not included the ACPICA maintainers
> > into your original CC list (added now).
> >
> > Bob, Lv, how should this be routed?
> >
> > Do you want to apply this patch upstream first or can we make this change in
> > Linux and upstream in parallel? That shouldn't be a big deal, right?
>
> I think we're still waiting for the updated IORT document to be published (I
> think this should be in the next week or so), so I don't think we should
> commit the new ID before that happens.

OK, thanks for the heads-up.

I think it's better to submit the actbl2.h update directly to ACPICA
upstream when the doc is published and then work on top of that.

Thanks,
Rafael