Re: RISC-V Linux Port v1

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon May 22 2017 - 21:25:47 EST


On 05/22/17 18:16, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi Palmer,
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In addition to the threaded messages, our port can be found on Git Hib
>>
>> https://github.com/riscv/riscv-linux/tree/riscv-for-submission-v1
>>
>> [PATCH 1/7] RISC-V: Top-Level Makefile for riscv{32,64}
>> [PATCH 2/7] RISC-V: arch/riscv Makefile and Kconfigs
>> [PATCH 3/7] RISC-V: Device Tree Documentation
>> [PATCH 4/7] RISC-V: arch/riscv/include
>> [PATCH 5/7] RISC-V: arch/riscv/lib
>> [PATCH 6/7] RISC-V: arch/riscv/kernel
>> [PATCH 7/7] RISC-V: arch/riscv/mm
>
> So, one overall comment on this patchset is that it's not bisectable
> (i.e. early patches add Makefile contents that refers to directories
> not yet introduced).
>
> While it's not overly important to really split up a new architecture
> introduction into small incremental patches, we generally strive to
> have the tree fully buildable at any given commit. Some minor
> rearranging would alleviate these problems.

Neither the email patches nor the git tree have any Signed-off-by:
entries AFAICT.

--
~Randy