Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: setup: Relocate the Device-Tree later on in the boot

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Volodymyr Babchuk wrote:
> Hi Julien,
> 
> Julien Grall writes:
> 
> > At the moment, the Device-Tree is relocated into xenheap while setting
> > up the memory subsystem. This is actually not necessary because the
> > early mapping is still present and we don't require the virtual address
> > to be stable until unflatting the Device-Tree.
> >
> > So the relocation can safely be moved after the memory subsystem is
> > fully setup. This has the nice advantage to make the relocation common
> > and let the xenheap allocator decides where to put it.
> >
> > Lastly, the device-tree is not going to be used for ACPI system. So
> > there are no need to relocate it and can just be discarded.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babchuk@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>

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