linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 0/4] ACPI: parse the SPCR table

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Message-ID: <20160921103749.GA7993@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:37:49 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@...aro.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
        Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
        Al Stone <ahs3@...hat.com>,
        Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>,
        Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
        Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@...el.com>, Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/4] ACPI: parse the SPCR table

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 01:27:30PM +0300, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/05/2016 03:36 PM, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> > 'ARM Server Base Boot Requirements' [1] mentions SPCR (Serial Port Console
> > Redirection Table) [2] as a mandatory ACPI table that specifies the
> > configuration of serial console.
> > 
> > Move "earlycon" early_param handling to earlycon.c to parse this option once
> > 
> > Parse SPCR table, setup earlycon and register specified console.
> > 
> > Enable parsing this table on ARM64.  Earlycon should be set up as early as
> > possible.  ACPI boot tables are mapped in
> > arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c:acpi_boot_table_init() called from setup_arch() and
> > that's where we parse spcr.  So it has to be opted-in per-arch. When
> > ACPI_SPCR_TABLE is defined initialization of DT earlycon is deferred until the
> > DT/ACPI decision is done.
> > 
> > Implement console_match() for pl011.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Can you consider picking this series for 4.9 please?

I thought you asked Rafael to take them, they are not in my queue
anymore because of that.  Don't try to shop-around for maintainers
please, that's kind of rude...

greg k-h