Re: [PATCH] arm: document "mach-virt" platform.
From: Christoffer Dall <hidden>
Date: 2014-02-03 04:56:35
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:54:46AM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote:
Hi Ian, On 01/30/2014 11:11 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:quoted
mach-virt has existed for a while but it is not written down what it actually consists of. Although it seems a bit unusual to document a binding for an entire platform since mach-virt is entirely virtual it is helpful to have something to refer to in the absence of a single concrete implementation. I've done my best to capture the requirements based on the git log and my memory/understanding. While here remove the xenvm dts example, the Xen tools will now build a suitable mach-virt compatible dts when launching the guest.
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+The platform may also provide hypervisor specific functionality +(e.g. PV I/O), if it does so then this functionality must be +discoverable (directly or indirectly) via device tree.I think it would be informative to provide pointers here to commonly used paravirtualized devices, especially VirtIO PCI/MMIO.
I disagree: that would only encourage limited testing or assumptions about these specific devices when really this platform is just a bare-bones platform driven by device tree which should make no preference, whatsoever, about which devices are used with the platform. -Christoffer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html