From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Zyngier Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: document "mach-virt" platform. Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:33:50 +0000 Message-ID: <52EA8CFE.7020404@arm.com> References: <1391098262-15944-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <201401301828.59294.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201401301828.59294.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" , Ian Campbell , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Mark Rutland , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Pawel Moll , Stefano Stabellini , Will Deacon , Rob Herring , Kumar Gala , Olof Johansson List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 30/01/14 17:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: >> 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. > > It might be worth noting in the changeset comment that the 'compatible' > string is actually no longer needed on newer kernels: All the members > of the machine descriptor are now the defaults (we should remove the > virt_init() function as well), and the fallback machine descriptor should > work just fine if any other string gets passed. I will ack the patch that removes the mach-virt directory altogether! M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny... -- 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