From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Graeme Gregory Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Enable ACPI support for KVM ARM Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1433909767-12189-1-git-send-email-wei@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08E649AE9 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:26:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dqF7WwOoPQsy for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:26:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91DCF497AC for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:26:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aJVni-0007Qp-Bv for kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:30:06 +0100 Received: from 79-66-3-221.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com ([79.66.3.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:30:06 +0100 Received: from graeme.gregory by 79-66-3-221.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:30:06 +0100 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu To: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Wei Huang redhat.com> writes: > > Initial ACPI support for ARM64 has been accepted into Linux kernel recently. > Now it is a good time to re-visit ACPI support for KVM. This patchset > enables ACPI for both arch_timer and vGIC by probing related ACPI tables > and does necessary initialization. > > Note that Alexander Spyridaki submitted similar patches before. Some of > his ideas were borrowed in this patchset, but with substancial changes. > In addition we extend support for both GICv2 and GICv3. > > This patchset would work better on top of recent GIC/IRQCHIP patches by > Hanjun Guo, who added support for gic_version in ACPI struct of GIC > distributor (search "ACPICA: Introduce GIC version for arm based system"). > > This patchset can be applied cleanly on top of kvmarm.git queue branch. > Is there a V3 of this patchset in the works? I think GIC stuff has calmed down a bit since you did this V2. Thanks Graeme