Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] cxl/acpi: Local definition of ACPICA infrastructure

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On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 8:13 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:03 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 5:26 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 8:05 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The recently released CXL specification change (ECN) for the CXL Fixed
> > > > Memory Window Structure (CFMWS) extension to the CXL Early Discovery
> > > > Table (CEDT) enables a large amount of functionality. It defines the
> > > > root of a CXL memory topology and is needed for all OS flows for CXL
> > > > provisioning CXL memory expanders. For ease of merging and tree
> > > > management add the new ACPI definition locally (drivers/cxl/acpi.h) in
> > > > such a way that they will not collide with the eventual arrival of the
> > > > definitions through the ACPICA project to their final location
> > > > (drivers/acpi/actbl1.h).
> > >
> > > I've just applied the ACPICA series including this change which can be
> > > made available as a forward-only branch in my tree, if that helps.
> >
> > Yes, please, that would be my preference. When I created this patch
> > the concern was that a stable branch was possibly weeks away.
>
> Rafael, I see "4a2c1dcfaf59 ACPICA: Add the CFMWS structure definition
> to the CEDT table" in your tree, I can safely assume that commit will
> not rebase at this point?

Yes, please.

> I'll likely rewind your acpica branch to
> that point and merge there to avoid carrying any unrelated follow-on
> commits.

Sure.



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