Re: [staging/DynamicTables] What about edk2-platforms.

[Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 06:38:14PM +0000, Evan Lloyd wrote:
> We are about to submit a new (ACPI 6.2) version of Sami's Dynamic Tables module.
> As suggested in previous threads, the aim is to submit it to edk2-staging.
> To that end, following the instructions at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/about/README
> (paragraph 4 a) "Maintainer sends patch email to edk2-devel", we need to generate a patch.
> 
> The problem is that the patch involves modules in both edk2 and edk2-platforms.
> What is the best strategy to use for that scenario?
> Is there any plan to have an edk2-platforms-staging?
> If not, we could roll the bits of platforms into edk2-staging, but that may engender problems later.
> Does anyone have any advice on how best to handle this, please?

As a third responder, I feel obliged to offer a third opinion.

My instinctive reaction is to set up a devel-dynamictables branch in
edk2-platforms, that rebases periodically on master and maintains
alignment as required with the edk2-staging branch.

/
    Leif