[External] Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] riscv: obtain ACPI RSDP from FFI.

[Andrew Jones]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 09:30:10PM +0800, 运辉崔 wrote:
> Hi drew,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 9:01 PM Andrew Jones <ajones at ventanamicro.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > (This is a reply to a non-existent cover letter.)
> 
> This has been discussed many times with Ard, Please refer to :
> https://patches.linaro.org/project/linux-acpi/patch/20230426034001.16-1-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com/

There's nothing in that thread that convinces me this is a good idea.
Indeed, afaict from that thread, Ard nacked this. It was only when it
was suggested that arch/riscv would own the code, that he stopped
complaining about it. I wouldn't call that an endorsement.

Thanks,
drew

> 
> 
> > I'm not a big fan of adding yet another interface. Have you considered
> > doing something like [1]?
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UefiPayloadPkg
> >
> > Thanks,
> > drew
> 
> Thanks,
> Yunhui