Hi Jon > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Masters [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 02 June 2016 08:32 > To: Gabriele Paoloni; Tomasz Nowicki; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; Wangyijing; > [email protected]; [email protected]; linux- > [email protected]; [email protected]; linux- > [email protected]; [email protected]; linaro- > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 0/9] Support for ARM64 ACPI based PCI host > controller > > On 06/01/2016 03:36 AM, Gabriele Paoloni wrote: > > > If you agree I think Jon can tell who's the best person to > > push the quirk RFC (as my understanding is that this mechanism > > is currently used by some platforms deployed on the market...) > > Let me ping Linaro folks to see who has that (quirks) ball. We can > certainly share the older OEM matching quirks Mark Salter did for > earlier RHEL(SA) internal versions as a seed for that[0] activity.
Tomasz has posted the RFC so we'll start to look at that > > BUT...I don't think we should block this thread on the quirks. They're > separate (but important). I see Arnd's reply as well, but nobody else > has yet chimed in to this thread (and I am about to prod all of the > vendors to reply to this thread and ACK). Can I ask whether we can't > just stage v8 as-is for -next at this point? Can Arnd's (or other) > suggestions be handled as followup patches post-merge please? Bjorn? I will ask HiSilicon folks to test it so we can add Tested-by on this Thanks Gab > > Jon. > > [0] RHEL(SA) has had three different PCIe enabled ACPI stacks > maintained > independently so far since we need PCIe to boot most of the hundreds of > v8 systems we have internal to Red Hat - which all have PCI. > > -- > Computer Architect | Sent from my Fedora powered laptop
