Re: [PATCH v9 0/5] Device tree support for Hyper-V VMBus driver

Wei Liu
2023-04-06T21:16:10Z

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 12:47:35AM -0700, Saurabh Sengar wrote:
> This set of patches expands the VMBus driver to include device tree
> support. This feature allows for a kernel boot without the use of ACPI
> tables, resulting in a smaller memory footprint and potentially faster
> boot times. This is tested by enabling CONFIG_OF and OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
> for x86.
>
> The first two patches enable compilation of Hyper-V APIs in a non-ACPI
> build.
>
> The third patch converts the VMBus driver from acpi to more generic
> platform driver.
>
> The fourth patch introduces the device tree documentation for VMBus.
>
> The fifth patch adds device tree support to the VMBus driver. Currently
> this is tested only for x86 and it may not work for other archs.
>
[...]
> .../bindings/bus/microsoft,vmbus.yaml | 54 ++++++++
> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> drivers/clocksource/hyperv_timer.c | 15 ++-
> drivers/hv/Kconfig | 5 +-
> drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 122 ++++++++++++++----
> include/linux/acpi.h | 5 +
> 6 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/microsoft,vmbus.yaml
>

Applied to hyperv-next.

Thanks,
Wei.

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