Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI / tables: Add IORT to injectable table list

From: Yang, Shunyong
Date: Fri Feb 02 2018 - 02:18:33 EST


Hi, Hanjun

On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 21:32 +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi Shunyong,
>
> On 2018/1/30 9:44, Yang, Shunyong wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Rafael
> >
> > Could you please help to review this patch? This is a small change
> > to
> > add ACPI_SIG_IORT to table_sigs[]. 
> > Loading IORT table from initrd is very useful to debug SMMU
> > node/device
> > probe, MSI allocation, stream id translation and verifying IORT
> > table
> > from firmware. So, I add this.
> It's true, mappings in IORT will be easy getting wrong, so it would
> be
> good to test it without updating the firmware.
>
> But I think you'd better to add your comment about why you need
> IORT in the commit message in your patch, that will be useful
> to convince Rafael to take your patch.
>

Thanks for your suggestion. I will add detailed information to commit
message and send out v3 later.

Thanks.
Shunyong.