[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/10] xen: arm: Refactor/improve early DT parsing and multiboot module support
On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 11:22 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The following refactors the Xen early device tree stuff (i.e. which > > walks the flattened tree directly) away from the regular device tree > > stuff (i.e. the stuff which for the most part deals with the unflattened > > tree). It also makes some changes to the Xen side multiboot support > > which I think will make it easier to work with, both internally and for > > e.g. bootloader integration. > > > > Impact on UEFI/ACPI: Mostly I think the refactoring may be useful when > > integrating the UEFI memory map and ACPI stuff (which wants early FDT, > > but not unflatening etc) in to Xen. > > > > Impact on multiboot: This could potentially simplify things on the grub > > side by removing the need to guess default types for the modules in the > > common case. > > > > In the future I think it would be good to implement more probing on the > > Xen side, e.g. to discover the XSM policy (similar to how it works on > > x86 -- which walks all the modules looking for the policy magic nr). > > > > The first two patches here have been posted before. > > > > Ian. > > > > Hi Ian, > > Is this series expected to go in? (or at least the DTB binding updates?) I still need to rebase and address a few comments/issues, but it should be going in. I just keep getting preempted by other stuff. I'm hoping to get back to it tomorrow or Friday. > I'm reviewing the device tree bindings I'm using in the stub and want to use > the updated bindings if they are going in. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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