From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: document "mach-virt" platform.
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:28:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401301828.59294.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391098262-15944-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
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.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-30 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-30 16:11 [PATCH] arm: document "mach-virt" platform Ian Campbell
2014-01-30 16:54 ` Christopher Covington
2014-01-30 17:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-01-30 17:15 ` Ian Campbell
2014-01-30 17:43 ` Christopher Covington
2014-02-03 4:56 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-02-03 11:14 ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-03 13:46 ` Christopher Covington
2014-02-03 17:41 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-01-30 17:13 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-01-30 17:21 ` Ian Campbell
2014-01-30 17:24 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-01-30 17:29 ` Ian Campbell
2014-01-30 17:28 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-01-30 17:33 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-01-31 17:48 ` Rob Herring
2014-01-30 17:33 ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-03 4:54 ` Christoffer Dall
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