Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] Fix Allwinner D1 boot regression

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:10:25 PDT (-0700), tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15 2024 at 10:51, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:30:48 PDT (-0700), tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I'm very much inclined to take the reverts right now, send them to Linus
> > > for -rc5 tagged with cc: stable and ignore/nak any irqchip related riscv
> > > patches until the next merge window is over.
> >
> > Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > if you want to take the revert.
>
> I'm happy to wait a week and see whether someone gets that CLINT hack
> working or as I suggested the D1 PLIC early probe quirk.
>
> > IIUC the patch above doesn't actually fix it, that's what led to just
> > sending the reverts -- at least reverts are better than breaking users.
> > I'll post over there too...
>
> Right. We figured that out by now :)
>
> > And it's no big deal if we're in the doghouse for a bit.  Regressions
> > should get fixed faster than this, so we deserve it.
>
> For a week I consider you probationers :)

Works for me ;)

> > Probably also another sign we're way too focused on getting new features
> > merged, as that's coming at the expense of making existing platforms
> > work.  IMO we've been way too focused on getting support for specs that
> > don't even have implementations, and not enough on building real working
> > systems.
>
> RISCV is not alone with that. This whole industry is nuts about features
> and forgets the stuff what matters.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx