Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 04/25 v6] xen/arm: vpl011: Add support for vuart in libxl

[Bhupinder Thakur <bhupinder.thakur@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 18 July 2017 at 17:00, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> CC x86 maintainers
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:19:19PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> >
>> >      ("arch_arm", Struct(None, [("gic_version", libxl_gic_version),
>> > +                               ("vuart", libxl_vuart_type),
>>
>> ... here it is ARM specific. I am not convinced that we should tie vuart to
>> ARM only. I cannot see why x86 would not be able to use it in the future.
>> Any opinions?
>
> I don't know. I asked Bhupinder to put it here because it looked arm
> specific to me. I will let x86 maintainers to decide whether they want
> such thing.

What is the decision on this?

I believe that since most of the vuart code added in libxl is arch
agnostic, it should be fine to keep the libxl_vuart_type as a generic
type.

Regards,
Bhupinder

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