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Re: [PATCH] xen/arm64: Default ACPI support enabled
- To: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@xxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 17:59:39 +0100
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- Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@xxxxxxx>, Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@xxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:59:56 +0000
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
On 06.02.2023 17:09, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 10:38:32AM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
>>
>> On 06/02/2023 07:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 22.07.2020 19:43, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
>>>> Unlike other unsupportted options, ACPI support is required to *boot*
>>>> for a number of platforms. Users on these platforms are unable to use
>>>> distribution builds and must rebuild from source to use Xen.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@xxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> A general question first: How come this mail dates back to July 2020? I
>>> had almost missed it as "new".
>>
>> I can't even find the Elliott's email in my inbox so reply here. But
>> this sounds like a rehash of [1].
>
> The date on Git patches is meant as an indicator for author date. Since
> this is a cherry-pick of a patch which was written >2 years ago
> `git format-patch` indicates when it was written. This IS how these
> systems work.
Yet I don't think I've seen anyone else send such apparently out-of-date
patches. And I don't think they all go and massage the author date prior
to sending stuff out ...
Jan
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