linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] irqchip/gic-v3: Enable non-coherent redistributors/ITSes probing

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Date:   Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:41:18 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Fang Xiang <fangxiang3@...omi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] irqchip/gic-v3: Enable non-coherent redistributors/ITSes probing

On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:30:47 +0100,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 12:34:58PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > I came up with the following alternative approach, which is as usual
> > completely untested. It is entirely based on the quirk infrastructure,
> > and doesn't touch the ACPI path at all.
> 
> The patch below makes sense and it is much cleaner - provided we
> consider this a quirk, which I am not sure it is, that's the only
> question I have.

Come on, the whole architecture is a bag of sick hacks. And given that
it makes the change slightly less ugly, I'd rather have that.

	M.

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