Re: [GIT PULL v2] FSI updates for 4.17

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jun 12 2018 - 07:19:17 EST


On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 08:54:39PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi Greg !
>
> There are a first round of updates of the FSI stack, aiming at reducing/removing
> he gap with the OpenBMC tree and a first step in getting dependent drivers
> upstream.
>
> These changes significantly improve the FSI bitbanging driver performance
> and reliability, and add the new "sbefifo" driver for communicating with
> the POWER9 Self Boot Engine (which will be needed for some upcoming
> additional drivers).
>
> These were posted to the list as patches a couple of weeks ago and were
> prior to that tested in the OpenBMC tree and CI. Some subsequent driver
> work depends on some of these, so merging early is probably the best.

Yeah, but as they are not "regression fixes", I'll put them into my
-next branch for merging with 4.19-rc1. I'll do that once 4.18-rc1 is
released, can't touch my trees until that happens.

thanks,

greg k-h