Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Question regarding VIOT proposal

From: Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com>
To: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Cc: "kevin.tian@intel.com" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	"mst@redhat.com" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Boeuf, Sebastien" <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>,
	Alexander Grest <Alexander.Grest@microsoft.com>,
	Yinghan Yang <Yinghan.Yang@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Question regarding VIOT proposal
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:35:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210219173557.GL702808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YC+f5bTMLFYgiOvS@myrica>

On 19 Feb 2021 12:24, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 04:39:43PM -0700, Al Stone wrote:
> > As of today, the proposal has been approved for inclusion in the next
> > release of the ACPI spec (whatever version gets released post the 6.4
> > version that just came out).
> > 
> > Congratulations ?!? :)
> > 
> > And thanks to all for their patience during this process.  You now
> > have the dubious disctinction of being the very first table added
> > to the spec that _started_ as open source.
> 
> That is great news! Thanks again for your help with this :)
> 
> Just to confirm, we don't need to wait for the release of the 6.5 version
> of the spec before upstreaming support for the table?

Correct.  This is why the UEFI community-first process exists -- so
the work can be done in the open instead of having to wait for the
next spec release.

> Another question that might come up at some point, is how to add new
> subtables. Is the process documented somewhere?

We would do essentially the same thing: there would be a discussion
on a list somewhere, a conclusion would be drawn, and an ECR put
together to send to the ASWG group (any UEFI member can do that, like
Yinghan, for example).  All discussion of changes would occur in the
open -- ASWG is really just monitoring progress in these cases.  Once
it is clear that the proposed change is stable and essentially
finalized by the community, there would be a final vote in the ASWG
on whether to include it or not.

> For the moment I sent a -poorly numbered- pull request for acpica:
> https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/666

That's hilarious :-D.  I'm sure it will be just fine :-)....

I'll put a tag on that PR to track it.

> Thanks,
> Jean
> 

-- 
ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3@redhat.com
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