linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 00/29] x86: Support Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions

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Date:   Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:44:47 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     "Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>
Cc:     "bp@...e.de" <bp@...e.de>, "Lutomirski, Andy" <luto@...nel.org>,
        "mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>,
        "lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "Macieira, Thiago" <thiago.macieira@...el.com>,
        "Liu, Jing2" <jing2.liu@...el.com>,
        "Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/29] x86: Support Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions

On Sat, Oct 02 2021 at 22:11, Chang Seok Bae wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2021, at 14:54, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 01 2021 at 15:36, Chang S. Bae wrote:
>>> The patches are built on top of the recent upstream x86 FPU changes [13].
>> 
>> which does not apply on:
>> 
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git master
>> 
>> because the relentless x86 folks changed the FPU code some more...
>> 
>> You should know the drill by now.
>
> Oh, I’m sorry, that sentence was copied from the old cover letters.
>
> I should have fixed that by saying it is no top of the mainline 5.15-rc3 as
> shown on the bottom:
>
>> base-commit: 5816b3e6577eaa676ceb00a848f0fd65fe2adc29

I know what a base commit is, but this still does not make it apply on
the tip tree which has already 10 patches against the FPU code applied
in the x86/fpu branch for 5.16. And that's the reference tree not some
arbitrary chosen base commit.

Thanks,

        tglx