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

[Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>]

On 15 December 2017 at 02:43, Kinney, Michael D
<michael.d.kinney@intel.com> wrote:
> Evan,
>
> This is a good question.
>
> Another staging repo is possible, but may not be required.
>
> You could add the platform content to edk2-staging and get
> everything working using that content.  When edk2-staging
> is ready for truck, you need to create the patches for
> the edk2 and edk2-platforms repos for review and commit.
> I think you can use filter-branch to extract the patch
> sets for each repo.
>

I don't think that is workable, if I understand Evan's use case correctly.

The feature implementation will likely consist of core feature code
(intended for edk2), and changes to existing platform code in
edk2-platforms to make use of it. The only way to add this to
edk2-staging is to import the entire platform from edk2-platforms to
live alongside the EDK2 packages and layer the platform changes on
top.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-
>> bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Evan Lloyd
>> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 10:38 AM
>> To: edk2-devel (edk2-devel@lists.01.org) <edk2-
>> devel@lists.01.org>; Leif Lindholm
>> <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>> Subject: [edk2] [staging/DynamicTables] What about
>> edk2-platforms.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Evan
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