From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:28:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v5 0/9] arm64: Add support for KVM with ACPI In-Reply-To: <1459769860-6629-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@arm.com> References: <1459769860-6629-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@arm.com> Message-ID: <20160406172805.GJ8961@cbox> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > Hello, > > This patch series allows KVM to work with ACPI on ARM64. > > Currently, the firmware tables are parsed by the the virtual timer and virtual > GIC code in order to configure them correctly. > > However the parsing of these tables is already done in the GIC and arch timer > drivers. This patch series introduces new helpers to retrieve the information > from the different drivers in order to avoid duplication of the parsing code. > > To make the merge easier via the different trees, each patch modifies a single > subsystem. The suggested plan to merge the series is divided in 3 steps: > > 1) Patches #1-#2 are merged via the clocksource tree > Patches #2-#6 are merged via the irqchip tree > 2) Patches #7-#8 are merge via the KVM tree > 3) Patch #9 is merged via the clocksource tree. > I'm not a clocksource or irqchip expert, and far from an ACPI expert, but this series overall looks good to me now. I guess we'll need to wait until the patches are in the clocksource and irqchip trees, and then merge that into the kvmarm tree, and apply patch 7 and 8 on top, or is there a simpler way to do this? Thanks, -Christoffer