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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:28:05 +0200 From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org> To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com> Cc: kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, marc.zyngier@....com, fu.wei@...aro.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, wei@...hat.com, al.stone@...aro.org, gg@...mlogic.co.uk, daniel.lezcano@...aro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] arm64: Add support for KVM with ACPI 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
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