linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI / tables: Add IORT to injectable table list

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Date:   Fri, 2 Feb 2018 07:18:28 +0000
From:   "Yang, Shunyong" <shunyong.yang@...-semitech.com>
To:     "rjw@...ysocki.net" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        "guohanjun@...wei.com" <guohanjun@...wei.com>
CC:     "lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Zheng, Joey" <yu.zheng@...-semitech.com>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Jiang, Yutang2" <yutang2.jiang@...-semitech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI / tables: Add IORT to injectable table list

Hi, Hanjun

On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 21:32 +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi Shunyong,
> 
> On 2018/1/30 9:44, Yang, Shunyong wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, Rafael
> > 
> > Could you please help to review this patch? This is a small change
> > to
> > add ACPI_SIG_IORT to table_sigs[]. 
> > Loading IORT table from initrd is very useful to debug SMMU
> > node/device
> > probe, MSI allocation, stream id translation and verifying IORT
> > table
> > from firmware. So, I add this.
> It's true, mappings in IORT will be easy getting wrong, so it would
> be
> good to test it without updating the firmware.
> 
> But I think you'd better to add your comment about why you need
> IORT in the commit message in your patch, that will be useful
> to convince Rafael to take your patch.
> 

Thanks for your suggestion. I will add detailed information to commit
message and send out v3 later.

Thanks.
Shunyong.