[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: enable ARMv7 virt support for the Arndale board

[Andreas Färber]

Am 01.08.2014 15:29, schrieb Andre Przywara:
> On 01/08/14 14:02, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> On 1 August 2014 14:59, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/08/14 13:53, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>>> On 1 August 2014 14:46, Andreas Färber <afaerber at suse.de> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 01.08.2014 13:35, schrieb Christoffer Dall:
>>>>>> From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at linaro.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To enable hypervisors utilizing the ARMv7 virtualization extension
>>>>>> on the Arndale board, add the simple SMP pen address writer function
>>>>>> and add the required configuration variables to switch all cores to
>>>>>> HYP mode before launching the OS.
>>>>>> This allows booting KVM and Xen directly from u-boot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at linaro.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> You forgot to sign off the patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> But nice to see progress on this!
>>>>>
>>>> Can you just add when applying the patch?
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
>>>
>>> Andreas,
>>>
>>> I wonder if you could change (or add) my new address, as my Linaro
>>> address does not work any more (just tested).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>>>
>> So I actually did not know the policy here, given that you did the
>> work under your linaro.org address, so I decided to keep this as they
>> were and just cc your arm address. If you're fine with using the
>> @arm.com address I can respin the patch with the right addresses and
>> signed-off-by's.
> 
> I don't know about the policy either - actually I hoped you could help
> here ;-) I am perfectly fine with giving Linaro as a sponsor credit for
> this, but I am just concerned about potential feedback, which would
> bounce and at best annoy people. As long as a post goes to a list also I
> catch it, but private only email would be stuck.
> This said I am fine both ways - maybe we keep both addresses for
> reference in?
> 
> Andreas,
> could you just add Christoffer's Signed-off-by and my Signed-off-by
> @arm.com without a respin?

Guys, I just reacted to this patch because I spotted "virt" and we have
a small farm of Arndale boards for OBS.

Please take a look at http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Custodians, which
lists Albert for ARM and Minkyu for Samsung (CC'ed).

Regards,
Andreas

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