From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] docs/arm64: clarify the documention for loading XSM support
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:38:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1461602337-29568-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22302.18281.770565.399474@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
Improve the clarity of the wording introduced in 67831c4c
"docs/arm64: update the documentation for loading XSM support"
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
---
v2: Tabify (to conform to the rest of the file)
---
docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
index cae46eda..ce2d0dc 100644
--- a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
+++ b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
@@ -26,19 +26,24 @@ Each node contains the following properties:
Xen will assume that the first module which lacks a more
specific compatible string is a "multiboot,kernel".
- Xen will check all the modules for the XSM Magic from the second
- module that lacks a specific compatible string. According to the
- result of the detection:
- - if it's an XSM, Xen will assume its compatible string is
+ Xen will examine each module, starting from the second
+ module that lacks a specific compatible string. Xen will
+ check each such module for the XSM Magic number:
+
+ - For a module which has the XSM Magic number: it will be
+ treated by Xen as if its compatible string was
"xen,xsm-policy";
- - if it's not an XSM, for the second module that lacks a specific
- compatible string, Xen will assume its compatible string is
- "multiboot,ramdisk"; the third and subsequent modules that
- lack a specific compatible string will not receive any special
- treatment.
- This means that if the ramdisk module is present and does not have
- the compatible string "multiboot,ramdisk", then it must always be
- the second module.
+
+ - For a module which does not have the XSM Magic: the second
+ module lacking a compatible string will be treated by Xen as
+ if its compatible string was "multiboot,ramdisk"; for the
+ third and subsequent modules which lack a specific
+ compatible string, Xen will not apply any special treatment.
+
+ This means if the ramdisk module is present and does not have the
+ compatible string "multiboot,ramdisk", then it must always be the
+ second module.
+
Note: This XSM Magic detection behavior was introduced by Xen 4.7.
Xen 4.6 (and downwards) still requires the XSM module to have the
compatible string "xen,xsm-policy".
--
1.7.10.4
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-25 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-21 11:07 [PATCH v2] docs/arm64: update the documention for loading XSM support fu.wei
2016-04-21 11:40 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-26 14:00 ` Fu Wei
2016-04-22 16:40 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-22 16:41 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-22 16:43 ` Wei Liu
2016-04-22 17:28 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-04-22 17:37 ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-22 17:29 ` [PATCH v3] " Ian Jackson
2016-04-22 17:37 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-25 9:42 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-25 15:12 ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-25 15:25 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-04-25 15:35 ` [PATCH] docs/arm64: clarify " Ian Jackson
2016-04-25 16:16 ` Julien Grall
2016-04-25 16:35 ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-25 16:38 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2016-04-25 16:45 ` [PATCH v2] " Julien Grall
2016-04-25 16:49 ` Wei Liu
2016-04-26 9:47 ` [PATCH] " Stefano Stabellini
2016-04-26 9:56 ` Wei Liu
2016-04-26 9:57 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-04-26 14:03 ` [PATCH v3] docs/arm64: update " Fu Wei
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