From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: RFC: [PATCH 1/3] Enhance platform support for PCI Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:15:23 +0000 Message-ID: <54E74F8B.3040304@linaro.org> References: <54E71BDE.5020106@caviumnetworks.com> <54E7229C.7000301@linaro.org> <54E72452.3090801@caviumnetworks.com> <54E72688.9010005@linaro.org> <54E729F1.6000804@caviumnetworks.com> <54E73010.2050902@caviumnetworks.com> <1424439941.30924.243.camel@citrix.com> <54E74EA802000078000620B7@mail.emea.novell.com> <1424442385.30924.265.camel@citrix.com> <54E7552F020000780006215A@mail.emea.novell.com> <1424444504.30924.282.camel@citrix.com> <54E74EFD.9080807@caviumnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54E74EFD.9080807@caviumnetworks.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: Manish Jaggi , Ian Campbell , Jan Beulich Cc: Prasun.kapoor@cavium.com, Vijaya Kumar , "StefanoStabellini(Stefano.Stabellini@citrix.com)" , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 20/02/15 15:13, Manish Jaggi wrote: >> On x86 you solve this because both Xen and dom0 can parse the same table >> and reach the same answer, sadly DT doesn't have everything needed in >> it. > In fact xen and dom0 use the same device tree nodes and in the same > order. xen creates the device tree for dom0. > I think xen can enforce the ABI while creating device tree While it's true for Linux, you can't assume that another OS (such as FreeBSD) will parse the device tree in the same order. Regards, -- Julien Grall