Re: [PATCH] Maintainers.txt: add Laszlo Ersek as UefiCpuPkg reviewer

["Shi, Steven" <steven.shi@intel.com>]

Hi Laszlo,
I happen hope to know how to well test the IOMMU/VT-D feature on OVMF. Can you give me some hints?


Steven Shi
Intel\SSG\STO\UEFI Firmware

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> Laszlo Ersek
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 6:53 PM
> To: edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
> Cc: Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>; Dong, Eric <eric.dong@intel.com>;
> Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>; Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>;
> Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Subject: [edk2] [PATCH] Maintainers.txt: add Laszlo Ersek as UefiCpuPkg
> reviewer
> 
> UefiCpuPkg hosts a number of modules (SMM infrastructure,
> MP-initialization) that may behave differently enough between
> virtualization guests and physical boards that they merit regression
> testing and review specifically from a virtualization perspective.
> 
> Add Laszlo as a UefiCpuPkg reviewer (not maintainer) so that he be CC'd on
> all UefiCpuPkg patches.
> 
> > R: Package Reviewer: Cc address for patches and questions. Reviewers
> >    help maintainers review code, but don't have push access.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
> Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
> Cc: Jeff Fan <vanjeff_919@hotmail.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Recently there have been two UefiCpuPkg patches on the list that have
>     each spent hardly more than 24 hours in review:
> 
>     * d76c2da8d50d ("MdeModulePkg/PiSmmCore: Install Protocol when S3
> resume
>       finished.", 2017-10-11),
> 
>     * 0594ec417c89 ("UefiCpuPkg/MpInitLib: Enhance waiting for AP
>       initialization logic.", 2017-10-23).
> 
>     Both times, I was out of office, and didn't get a chance to comment. The
>     first commit broke OVMF:
> 
>       http://mid.mail-archive.com/8d678707-fb07-0326-acfd-
> 878bb7e8c5d6@redhat.com
>       https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/152e8d7670d5
> 
>     while the second commit has a good chance to break OVMF on at least
> some
>     virt hosts:
> 
>       https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2017-October/016309.html
> 
>     I was not CC'd either time. Had I been CC'd, the automated out-of-office
>     reply that I always set up would have been received on the submitter's
>     side, and I could have tested and/or commented on the patches in
>     question, before they were pushed.
> 
>     My intent as a UefiCpuPkg Reviewer is to be inserted in the patch review
>     process for UefiCpuPkg. I should be explicitly CC'd; and my feedback
>     should please be waited upon. I think I've proved myself reasonably
>     responsive; I intend to follow up in a few days every time. My review
>     should definitely not replace Eric's review, but I'd like to get an
>     *official* chance to raise questions before a patch is pushed. Whenever
>     I have nothing to add, I'll send an Acked-by. Thanks.
> 
>  Maintainers.txt | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Maintainers.txt b/Maintainers.txt
> index c1a5723af9db..297a9bfd2b56 100644
> --- a/Maintainers.txt
> +++ b/Maintainers.txt
> @@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ M: Jaben Carsey <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
>  UefiCpuPkg
>  W: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UefiCpuPkg
>  M: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
> +R: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> 
>  UnixPkg
>  W: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UnixPkg
> --
> 2.14.1.3.gb7cf6e02401b
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