[PATCH 0/5] Simplify kernel-mode NEON

Dave Martin Dave.Martin at arm.com
Fri Aug 4 07:25:05 PDT 2017


On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:26:06PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

[...]

> > > >> On 4 August 2017 at 13:22, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:

[...]

> > > >> > ... and reverted.

[...]

> > > Perhaps we could stick it on a separate branch for this cycle (with
> > > the suggested tweak) and get it pulled it into -next separately? That
> > > way, you can forward it as a late pull, after Herbert's stuff gets in.
> > 
> > Or I could prepend the patches to the SVE series, and we wait for Linux
> > to pull the crypto branch before merging that.  (I still need to repost
> > and the SVE patches need to be reviewed, so that isn't imminent.)
> 
> I'll publish a branch early next week with the kernel mode neon patches
> and you can base the SVE on top. We can test them together but I'll
> wait for the crypto stuff to go in before sending this branch to Linus.

OK, this sounds like a good approach.

Ping me when you have a branch, but anyway I'll drop those patches from
the SVE series.

Thanks
---Dave



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