Re: [PATCH 0/3] apple rtkit: add support for atomic operations

[Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>]

On 18/09/2022 01.18, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 11:07:13AM -0500, Jassi Brar wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 6:46 AM Russell King (Oracle)
>> <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 01:33:45PM +0200, Sven Peter wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 12:42:30PM +0200, Sven Peter wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022, at 10:34, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This series adds support to the Apple rtkit for atomic messaging,
>>>>>>> which will be necessary for SMC support on these platforms.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SMC support requires a bit of rework after recent review comments,
>>>>>>> so I'm sending this separately in the hope that we can move forward
>>>>>>> with upstream kernels.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe I misremember or maybe you forgot to pick up my reviewed-by tags
>>>>>> for the mailbox commits.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's the first time I've sent the mailbox commits after Hector
>>>>> mentioned them.
>>>>
>>>> There are just too many things in flight right now which is part of the
>>>> reason I'm happy you're trying to get all this upstream!
>>>>
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/YxYoW2IZFK%2FJdKgH@shell.armlinux.org.uk/
>>>
>>> Hmm, I'd completely forgotten that I've posted it previously! Hmm,
>>> no response from Jassi on the previous posting despite nothing no
>>> action being required on the patches. Jassi?
>>>
>> Usually I let patches roast in public until rc7 but I sensed other
>> parts of apple support might depend on these.
>> So I picked patches 1 & 2 from this series yesterday.
>>  https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/fujitsu/integration.git/log/?h=mailbox-for-next
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Now I need to work out how we get patch 3 into mainline - there appears
> to be no maintainer for drivers/soc, so unless something happens, it's
> not going to be picked up...
> 

We own drivers/soc/apple, so I will pick that up (as long as it's
reviewed by someone else, which it is) :). Same with DTs for our platforms.

Those PRs then go out via the SoC tree. Please remind me if I haven't
picked it up and sent it upstream by Tuesday! (I need to get some sleep now)

- Hector