Re: [PATCH v2 00/25] Apple M1 SoC platform bring-up

[gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 01:57:39PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 1:16 PM Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:
> >
> > This series brings up initial support for the Apple M1 SoC, used in the
> > 2020 Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models.
> >
> > The following features are supported in this initial port:
> >
> > - UART (samsung-style) with earlycon support
> > - Interrupts, including affinity and IPIs (Apple Interrupt Controller)
> > - SMP (through standard spin-table support)
> > - simplefb-based framebuffer
> > - Devicetree for the Mac Mini (should work for the others too at this
> >   stage)
> 
> I am essentially happy with the state of this series, the comments I had
> in v1 by email and IRC are all addressed, but of course with the timing
> during the merge window, it is not going to be in v5.12.
> 
> (adding maintainers for the serial/irqchip/clocksource drivers and
> arch/arm64 to cc)
> 
> I would suggest merging it together as a series through the soc tree for
> v5.13, once each patch has been reviewed by the respective subsystem
> maintainers, with possible add-on patches on the same branch for
> additional drivers that may become ready during the 5.12-rc cycle.
> After the initial merge, driver patches will of course go through subsystem
> trees as normal.
> 
> Let me know if that works for everyone.

Sure, as long as the maintainers get to see the patches, I don't think
I've seen the serial ones at all...