Re: [Qemu-devel] Ping: [PATCH] Extract some reusable vGIC code

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 June 2015 at 10:44, Pavel Fedin <address@hidden> wrote:
>  Hi!
>
>> I think if I were you I would just include this patch in the same series
>> as the code it's intended to support.
>
>  The code it's intended to support waits for GICv3 itself, that's
> why it's delayed. And this part has no dependencies and could be
> applied to master. IMHO partial progress is better than no progress.
> But it's just IMHO. So, OK, if you think it has to wait, it can wait.

If it were a larger amount of code it might make sense to apply
it early (as we've been doing with some EL2/EL3 preparatory
work). But it's only a single patch, and it doesn't provide any
immediate benefit, so there's no need to try to review it out
of context, I think.

thanks
-- PMM