From: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] dynamic sysbus instantiation and load_dtb implementation
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:41:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5448F766.8050309@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5448E95C.4080706@linaro.org>
On 10/23/2014 01:41 PM, Eric Auger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks everyone for entering the thread & reading my long email.
>
> Alex, I indeed can register the notifier in the machine file after
s/after/before
Eric
the
> platform bus instantiation. This indeed guarantees the notifiers are
> called in the right order ...
>
> Thanks
>
> Best Regards
>
> Eric
>
> On 10/23/2014 01:26 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 23.10.14 13:24, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 23 October 2014 12:23, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>>>> On 23.10.14 12:19, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>>> The reason for this change was that, before, the DTB would only be
>>>>> generated once, and after a reset, the machine would go through the
>>>>> kernel boot protocol as before but the DTB pointer would point to
>>>>> garbage. Any idea how ppc deals with this? Do they recreate the device
>>>>> tree after each reset?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, we regenerate the device tree on each reset.
>>>
>>> Any particular reason? Surely it's always the same...
>>
>> We have the code in place anyway, it's not a performance critical code
>> path and putting it into a rom would be a waste of RAM, as it'd keep yet
>> another copy of something we can easily regenerate.
>>
>> It's a matter of personal preference I guess.
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-23 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-23 10:10 [Qemu-devel] dynamic sysbus instantiation and load_dtb implementation Eric Auger
2014-10-23 10:14 ` Alexander Graf
2014-10-23 10:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-23 11:23 ` Alexander Graf
2014-10-23 11:24 ` Peter Maydell
2014-10-23 11:26 ` Alexander Graf
2014-10-23 11:41 ` Eric Auger
2014-10-23 12:41 ` Eric Auger [this message]
2014-10-24 12:38 ` David Gibson
2014-11-13 4:02 ` David Gibson
2014-11-13 13:06 ` Eric Auger
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