Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 01/24] xen: Extend DOMCTL createdomain to support arch configuration

[Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/13/2015 09:25 AM, Julien Grall wrote:
> On ARM the virtual GIC may differ between each guest (emulated GIC version,
> number of SPIs...). Those informations are already known at the domain creation
> and can never change.
>
> For now only the gic_version is set. In long run, there will be more parameters
> such as the number of SPIs. All will be required to be set at the same time.
>
> A new arch-specific structure arch_domainconfig has been created, the x86
> one doesn't have any specific configuration, a dummy structure
> (C-spec compliant) has been created to factorize the code on the toolstack.
>
> Some external tools (qemu, xenstore) may require to create a domain. Rather
> than asking them to take care of the arch-specific domain configuration, let
> the current function (xc_domain_create) to chose a default configuration and
> introduce a new one (xc_domain_create_config).
>
> This patch also drop the previously DOMCTL arm_configure_domain introduced
> in Xen 4.5, as it has been made useless.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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