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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 10/16] xen: arm: define guest virtual platform in API headers



On 11/19/2013 01:00 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The tools and the hypervisor need to agree on various aspects of the guest
> environment, such as interrupt numbers, memory layout, initial register values
> for registers which are implementation defined etc. Therefore move the
> associated defines into the public interface headers, or create them as
> necessary.
> 
> This just exposes the current de-facto standard guest layout, which may be
> subject to change in the future. This deliberately does not make the guest
> layout dynamic since there is currently no need.
> 
> These values should not be exposed to guests, they should find these things
> out via device tree or should not be relying on implementation defined
> defaults.
> 
> Various bits of the hypervisor needed to change to configure dom0 with the 
> real
> platform values while using the virtual platform configuration for guests.
> Arrange for this where appropriate and plumb through as needed.
> 
> We also need to expose some 64-bit values (e.g. PSR_GUEST64_INIT) for the
> benefit of 32 bit toolstacks building 64 bit guests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

I have just noticed that this patch breaks dom0 boot on most of ARM
platform. I have sent a separate patch to fix this issue. See:
https://patches.linaro.org/21632/

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall

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