Re: [Xen-devel] [XEN PATCH for-4.13 v3] xen/arm: platform: fix Raspberry Pi compatible string

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 28.10.19 13:01, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 21/10/2019 02:27, Stewart Hildebrand wrote:
> > Both upstream [1] and downstream [2] Linux kernels use "brcm,bcm2711"
> > as the compatible string for Raspberry Pi 4. Add this string to our
> > platform compatible list.
> >
> > The brcm,bcm2838 convention is abandoned. Remove it.
> >
> > Rename the variables within the file to a rpi4_* prefix since the file
> > is meant to cover the Raspberry Pi 4 platform.
> >
> > If you are using a device tree with the old compatible string
> > brcm,bcm2838, you will need to upgrade your device tree to one that has
> > the new brcm,bcm2711 compatible string.
> >
> > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11165407/
> > [2] 
> > https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/53fdd7b8c8cb9c87190caab4fd459f89e1b4a7f8 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stewart Hildebrand <stewart.hildebrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
>
> @Juergen: RPI4 support has been added during Xen 4.13 development. This 
> is still in development (i.e. it can't work out-of-box at least on the 
> kernel side), but it would be good if we can enable support for more 
> recent kernel. This would help to draw more users to Xen and also 
> possibly reduce the number of hacks necessary in Linux/Device-Tree when 
> using Xen on RPI4.
> This patch only touches RPI4 specific code, so it will not affect the 
> rest of the supported platform.
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Juergen

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