Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] xen: Add EFI support

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 03:15:41PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun, at 07:00:16PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > This patch series adds EFI support for Xen dom0 guests.
> > It is based on Jan Beulich and Tang Liang work. I was
> > trying to take into account all previous comments,
> > however, if I missed something sorry for that.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> >  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c          |    4 +-
> >  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c      |   77 ++++++++++-------
> >  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c         |   24 ++++++
> >  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c       |   26 +++---
> >  drivers/xen/Kconfig              |    4 +
> >  drivers/xen/Makefile             |    3 +
> >  drivers/xen/efi.c                |  374 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/efi.h              |    3 +-
> >  include/xen/interface/platform.h |  123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  9 files changed, 595 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
> FWIW I'm much happier with this version than v4. There's nothing that
> jumps out at me as being obviously wrong. Just a few minor cleanups
> needed.

Fantastic!
> 
> Which tree is this intended to go through? I'm more than happy to take
> it through the EFI tree, particularly since it touches
> include/linux/efi.h and drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c which is the core EFI
> interface for all platforms.

Your tree is perfect. I presume you do some automatic regression testing
when you have accumulated a tons of patch - so if any of them cause havoc
we can catch them before the merge window and fix them.

> 
> But if it's going through the Xen tree or something, I can supply my
> Acked-by's (once the aforementioned minor cleanups are taken care of).

Nah, lets do your tree. And either Boris, me or David will supply
the Acked-by on the drivers/xen* and arch/x86/xen/* so all the
right tags are in place.

Thanks again!
> 
> -- 
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center