From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755492AbbAPPZK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:25:10 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60051 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904AbbAPPZJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:25:09 -0500 Message-ID: <54B92CFA.2040101@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:23:38 -0700 From: Al Stone User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Stone , Catalin Marinas CC: linaro-acpi , Will Deacon , Yijing Wang , Rob Herring , Timur Tabi , ACPI Devel Mailing List , "phoenix.liyi@huawei.com" , Robert Richter , Jason Cooper , Arnd Bergmann , Marc Zyngier , "jcm@redhat.com" , Mark Brown , Bjorn Helgaas , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Randy Dunlap , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v7 00/17] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1 References: <1421247905-3749-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <20150115182346.GE2329@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <54B831C9.3060700@redhat.com> <20150116102035.GD13634@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <54B92B99.5000604@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <54B92B99.5000604@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/16/2015 08:17 AM, Al Stone wrote: > On 01/16/2015 03:20 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:31:53PM +0000, Al Stone wrote: >>> On 01/15/2015 11:23 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:26:20PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Hanjun Guo wrote: >>>>>> This is the v7 of ACPI core patches for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1 >>>>> >>>>> I'll get right to the point: Can we please have this series queued up >>>>> for v3.20? >>>> [snip ... ] >>> >>>>> 5. Platform support patches need verification and review >>>>> * ACPI core works on at least the Foundation model, Juno, APM >>>>> Mustang, and AMD Seattle >>>>> * There still are driver patches being discussed. See Al's summary >>>>> for details >>>>> * As I argued above, the state of driver patches isn't going to be >>>> >>>> We are still lacking here. To quote Al, "First version for AMD Seattle >>>> has been posted to the public linaro-acpi mailing list for initial >>>> review". Sorry but I don't follow linaro-acpi list. I don't know what's >>>> in those patches and I can't tell which subsystems they touch, whether >>>> maintainers agree with them. So in conclusion, I'm not confident the >>>> arm64 hardware ACPI story looks that great yet. >>>> >>> >>> This is solely my fault -- too much time on processes, email, and >>> documentation, not enough time on the Seattle patches. And not >>> enough Seattles to go around for someone else to pick up the slack. >>> >>> I am aware not everyone is subscribed to linaro-acpi; we use that >>> for internal review before posting more broadly, which is the only >>> reason I sent them there. >>> >>> I'm in the middle of updating them as I have time, based on really >>> good feedback from Arnd; few of them are terribly new (the very first >>> posting was [0]) -- it's mostly a matter of rebasing, integrating >>> updates from AMD and others, and reacting to the comments. One can >>> also see what these patches will probably look like via one of the >>> Fedora kernel trees [1]. >> >> Do you have some simple branch against mainline with just the ACPI core >> patches and what's required for AMD Seattle? I have no plans to dig >> through the Fedora kernels. >> > > Nor was I expecting you to; I only added it as additional reference > material, should one be interested. > > The version of patches sent to the linaro-acpi list are from the Linaro > acpi.git tree, and are precisely what you describe; those are the ones > being updated. > My bad, not enough coffee yet. The Linaro acpi.git tree is at: https://git.linaro.org/leg/acpi/acpi.git -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ahs3@redhat.com -----------------------------------