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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:24:34 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] dynamic sysbus instantiation and load_dtb
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>, Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>

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...

-- PMM