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* [PATCH 00/10 V5] arm: support for initial modules (e.g. dom0) and DTB supplied in RAM
@ 2013-01-18 16:22 Ian Campbell
  2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 01/10] xen: arm: introduce concept of modules which can be in RAM at start of day Ian Campbell
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From: Ian Campbell @ 2013-01-18 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org; +Cc: Tim (Xen.org), Stefano Stabellini

The following series implements support for initial images and DTB in
RAM, as opposed to in flash (dom0 kernel) or compiled into the
hypervisor (DTB). It arranges to not clobber these with either the h/v
text on relocation or with the heaps and frees them as appropriate.

Most of this is independent of the specific bootloader protocol which is
used to tell Xen where these modules actually are, but I have included a
simple PoC bootloader protocol based around device tree which is similar
to the protocol used by Linux to find its initrd
(where /chosen/linux,initrd-{start,end} indicate the physical address).

The PoC protocol is documented in docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
which is added by this series.

The major change in this posting is to push the device-tree PoC bits to
the end of the series after the more generic mechanisms, as discussed in
<1355913325.14620.303.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>. The earlier patches
can now potentially be committed while the later ones (specifically
patches 8 + 9) are still under discussion.

I've included Stefano's "flush dcache after memcpy'ing the kernel image"
patch here too since it depends on the refactoring in this series.

Ian.

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2013-01-18 16:22 [PATCH 00/10 V5] arm: support for initial modules (e.g. dom0) and DTB supplied in RAM Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 01/10] xen: arm: introduce concept of modules which can be in RAM at start of day Ian Campbell
2013-01-21 11:35   ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-21 12:41     ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 02/10] arm: avoid placing Xen over any modules Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 03/10] arm: avoid allocating the heaps over modules or xen itself Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 04/10] device-tree: get_val cannot cope with cells > 2, add early_panic Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 05/10] arm: load dom0 kernel from first boot module Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 06/10] arm: discard boot modules after building domain 0 Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 07/10] arm: use module provided command line for domain 0 command line Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 08/10] xen/arm: flush dcache after memcpy'ing the kernel image Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 09/10] xen: arm: parse modules from DT during early boot Ian Campbell
2013-01-18 16:40 ` [PATCH 10/10] xen: strip /chosen/modules/module@<N>/* from dom0 device tree Ian Campbell

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