From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@huawei.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>,
Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
zoltan.kiss@huawei.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/arm: Handle translated addresses for hardware domains in GICv2
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:09:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54ECB02D.8050706@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424797207.20243.10.camel@citrix.com>
On 24/02/15 17:00, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> Furthermore, the current code rely on how the device has been written.
>> For instance the calxeda device tree is using ranges and, therefore, the
>> regs contains offset.
>> Fortunately, the offset and the translated address is the same.
>>
>>> I certainly wouldn't want to backport a fix to gic v2 only.
>>
>> As we didn't backport other patches related to GICv3, it would not make
>> much sense to backport a similar fix for GICv3..
>
> We should consider each patch/series on its own merits. The other GICv3
> fixes were far more invasive and complicated than what is being done
> here.
Agreed. Just it doesn't make sense to backport new GICv3 patches as we
know that without the previous series any Linux >= 3.19 won't boot at all.
Regards,
--
Julien Grall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-24 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-20 9:38 [PATCH] xen/arm: Handle translated addresses for hardware domains in GICv2 Frediano Ziglio
2015-02-23 16:30 ` Julien Grall
2015-02-24 16:01 ` Ian Campbell
2015-02-24 16:21 ` Julien Grall
2015-02-24 17:00 ` Ian Campbell
2015-02-24 17:09 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2015-02-24 16:00 ` Ian Campbell
2015-02-25 11:14 ` Frediano Ziglio
2015-02-25 13:03 ` Julien Grall
2015-02-25 13:21 ` Frediano Ziglio
2015-02-27 13:53 ` Julien Grall
2015-02-27 13:57 ` Ian Campbell
2015-02-27 14:00 ` Julien Grall
2015-02-27 14:08 ` Frediano Ziglio
2015-03-02 14:50 ` Ian Campbell
2015-03-02 15:00 ` Frediano Ziglio
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