From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for Xen ARM guest on FreeBSD Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:49:08 +0000 Message-ID: <52DB2104.3070808@linaro.org> References: <1389733267-20822-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@linaro.org> <24851B79-7EC7-4E3A-94DB-4B9B86FDFFFC@bsdimp.com> <52D6B62A.9000208@linaro.org> <52D73C4E.2080306@freebsd.org> <52D87B15.5090208@linaro.org> <1389950962.6697.33.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1389950962.6697.33.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org, Nathan Whitehorn , gibbs@freebsd.org, Warner Losh , roger.pau@citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 01/17/2014 09:29 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 00:36 +0000, Julien Grall wrote: >> IanC: I was reading the linux binding documentation >> (devicetree/booting-without-of.txt VII.2) and it seems that the >> explanation differs from the implementation, right? > > I vaguely recall someone saying that the Linux behaviour was a quirk of > some real PPC system which supplied a DTB which required this behaviour > which has leaked into the other platforms. It does also sound like a > useful extension to the spec which makes the dtb easier to write. I've read twice the ePAR and did some test. I was completely wrong, this file is valid with the ePAR (there is even an example like that at the end at the specification). And FreeBSD doesn't complain about this since Nathan's ofw/fdt rework. Sorry for the waste time. -- Julien Grall