From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: Requesting for freeze exception for ARM/ITS patches Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:55:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20150713135504.GK4108@zion.uk.xensource.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Vijay Kilari Cc: Wei Liu , Ian Campbell , Stefano Stabellini , Prasun Kapoor , manish.jaggi@caviumnetworks.com, "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , Julien Grall , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 04:16:07PM +0530, Vijay Kilari wrote: > Hi Wei, > > I would like to have freeze exception for ITS feature on ARM64. > Design got freeze few weeks back and I have sent v4 version of patch series > today. > > This patches will not impact any generic code of other platforms and have minor > changes generic arm related code. Also these patches are only for > ARM64 platform. > > These patches are pre-requisite for PCI support / Pass-through support > on ARM64 platforms. > > The risk is minor and as of today only used by Cavium ThunderX platform. > I'm not a ARM expert, but last time I checked most patches in v3 are not acked. I also got conflict statements from maintainers and core developer. I will wait a bit for them clarify the situation. But as Ian said, if you can't post v4 and get most if all of your patches acked / reviewed early this week, my answer to this request would be no. Wei. > Regards > Vijay