[PATCH v1 0/9] Fix Allwinner D1 boot regression

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Aug 15 11:10:25 PDT 2024


On Thu, Aug 15 2024 at 10:51, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:30:48 PDT (-0700), tglx at linutronix.de wrote:
>> I'm very much inclined to take the reverts right now, send them to Linus
>> for -rc5 tagged with cc: stable and ignore/nak any irqchip related riscv
>> patches until the next merge window is over.
>
> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
>
> if you want to take the revert.

I'm happy to wait a week and see whether someone gets that CLINT hack
working or as I suggested the D1 PLIC early probe quirk.

> IIUC the patch above doesn't actually fix it, that's what led to just 
> sending the reverts -- at least reverts are better than breaking users.  
> I'll post over there too...

Right. We figured that out by now :)

> And it's no big deal if we're in the doghouse for a bit.  Regressions 
> should get fixed faster than this, so we deserve it.

For a week I consider you probationers :)

> Probably also another sign we're way too focused on getting new features 
> merged, as that's coming at the expense of making existing platforms 
> work.  IMO we've been way too focused on getting support for specs that 
> don't even have implementations, and not enough on building real working 
> systems.

RISCV is not alone with that. This whole industry is nuts about features
and forgets the stuff what matters.

Thanks,

        tglx



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