Re: [PATCH v4 00/20] KVM RISC-V Support

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Aug 08 2019 - 04:54:48 EST


On 08/08/19 01:15, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>> On 07/08/19 14:27, Anup Patel wrote:
>>> This series adds initial KVM RISC-V support. Currently, we are able to boot
>>> RISC-V 64bit Linux Guests with multiple VCPUs.
>>
>> Looks good to me! Still need an Acked-by from arch/riscv folks if I
>> have to merge it, otherwise they can take care of the initial merge.
>
> Since almost all of the patches touch arch/riscv files, we'll plan to
> merge them through the RISC-V tree. Care to ack patch one, and send tags
> for any other patches as you think might be appropriate?

Patch 1, 3-20:

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

In your 5.4 pull requests, it's best if you add a note that all RISC-V
KVM patches were acked and reviewed by me. I'll also include a shoutout
about RISC-V KVM in my own pull request.

However, for Linux releases after 5.4 I would rather get pull requests
for arch/riscv/kvm from Anup and Atish without involving the RISC-V
tree. Of course, they or I will ask for your ack, or for a topic
branch, on the occasion that something touches files outside their
maintainership area. This is how things are already being handled for
ARM, POWER and s390 and it allows me to handle conflicts in common KVM
files before they reach Linus; these are more common than conflicts in
arch files. If you have further questions on git and maintenance
workflows, just ask!

Paolo