On Fri, 26 Aug 2022, at 03:43, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 4:30 AM Andrei Gherzan <and...@gherzan.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2022, at 02:26, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> > In message: Re: [linux-yocto] [kernel-cache][PATCH] efi.cfg: Drop ACPI
>> > dependency
>> > on 22/08/2022 Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 22 Aug 2022, at 18:55, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>> >> > From: Andrei Gherzan <andrei.gher...@huawei.com>
>> >> >
>> >> > On X86 this will have no impact as CONFIG_ACPI is enabled by default. On
>> >> > the other hand, ARM64 would be affected as they don't have the same
>> >> > default. The defconfig for arm64 recommends CONFIG_ACPI and this patch
>> >> > follows this recommendation in the qemuarm64 bsp configuration to fix
>> >> > ACPI-only EFI boots on this arch.
>> >> >
>> >> > arm (32bit) would also be unaffected as there is no ACPI support there
>> >> > at all. And this unconditional drop (CONFIG_ACPI) will actually fix a
>> >> > configuration warning when enabling EFI on a arm (32bit) machine:
>> >> >
>> >> > [INFO]: config 'CONFIG_ACPI' was set, but it wasn't assignable, check
>> >> > (parent) dependencies
>> >> >
>> >> > Upstream-status: Pending
>> >>
>> >> Please drop this when you apply the patch. It is from a layer local 
>> >> integration.
>> >
>> > No problem. Which kernel versions are you targetting for this ?
>>
>> I'm targeting 5.10 at this point but the later ones should be useful too.
>
> When I merge these sorts of things to an older kernel, they need to be
> on master (unless they really are version specific), and preferably on
> the intermediate versions, just so we have consistent behaviour.

It makes sense and that is why I've initially sent it against master so that 
when it gets merged there, I can ping you or propose it for the older versions. 
Nevertheless, it looks like it ended up everywhere now so all good.

Thanks,
Andrei
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