Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] riscv: obtain ACPI RSDP from FFI.

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Mon Jul 03 2023 - 10:24:20 EST


On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 04:17:07PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 09:30:10PM +0800, 运辉崔 wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 9:01 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > (This is a reply to a non-existent cover letter.)
> >
> > This has been discussed many times with Ard, Please refer to :
> > https://patches.linaro.org/project/linux-acpi/patch/20230426034001.16-1-cuiyunhui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> There's nothing in that thread that convinces me this is a good idea.
> Indeed, afaict from that thread, Ard nacked this. It was only when it
> was suggested that arch/riscv would own the code, that he stopped
> complaining about it. I wouldn't call that an endorsement.

In fact, he expressly said that it would then be up to the RISC-V
maintainers as to what to do:
But please check with the RISC-V maintainers
if they are up for this, and whether they want to see this mechanism
contributed to one of the pertinent specifications.

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