Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] allow simple{fb, drm} drivers to be used on non-x86 EFI platforms

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Wed Jul 21 2021 - 01:10:35 EST


Hello Thomas,

On 7/20/21 8:38 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Am 20.07.21 um 15:59 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 03:42:45PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>> On 7/20/21 3:01 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 09:10:52AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 04:59, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

>>>>>> Can we just merge via drm-misc and make sure the acks are present and
>>>>>> I'll deal with the fallout if any.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Fine with me. Could you stick it on a separate branch so I can double
>>>>> check whether there are any issues wrt the EFI tree?
>>>>
>>>> It'll pop up in linux-next for integration testing or you can pick up the
>>>> patch here for test-merge if you want.
>>>>

This is what Daniel said...

>>>
>>> Thanks a lot Dave and Daniel!
>>
>> Oh I haven't merged them, I'm assuming Thomas will do that. Just figured
>
> Can I simply put the patches in to drm-misc-next? There was some talk
> about a topic branch?
>

... which AFAIU means that there's no need for a topic branch, since the
patches will be present in linux-next. And the EFI folks can use that to
check if there are any integration issues or regressions caused by these.

> Best regards
> Thomas
>

Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat