linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] allow simple{fb, drm} drivers to be used on non-x86 EFI platforms

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Message-ID: <44a75f18-e3a6-f764-b0ec-ce3ac05805a9@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:09:23 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@...il.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] allow simple{fb, drm} drivers to be used on
 non-x86 EFI platforms

Hello Thomas,

On 7/20/21 8:38 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Am 20.07.21 um 15:59 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 03:42:45PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>> On 7/20/21 3:01 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 09:10:52AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 04:59, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:

[snip]

>>>>>> Can we just merge via drm-misc and make sure the acks are present and
>>>>>> I'll deal with the fallout if any.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Fine with me. Could you stick it on a separate branch so I can double
>>>>> check whether there are any issues wrt the EFI tree?
>>>>
>>>> It'll pop up in linux-next for integration testing or you can pick up the
>>>> patch here for test-merge if you want.
>>>>

This is what Daniel said...

>>>
>>> Thanks a lot Dave and Daniel!
>>
>> Oh I haven't merged them, I'm assuming Thomas will do that. Just figured
> 
> Can I simply put the patches in to drm-misc-next? There was some talk 
> about a topic branch?
>

... which AFAIU means that there's no need for a topic branch, since the
patches will be present in linux-next. And the EFI folks can use that to
check if there are any integration issues or regressions caused by these.
 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat