Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen/ppc: Enable Boot Allocator

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> (+ Arm and RISC-V folks)
>
> Hi Shawn,
>
> On 01/12/2023 20:59, Shawn Anastasio wrote:
>> Adapt arm's earlyfdt parsing code to ppc64 and enable Xen's early boot
>> allocator. Routines for parsing arm-specific devicetree nodes (e.g.
>> multiboot) were excluded, reducing the overall footprint of code that
>> was copied.
>
> I expect RISC-V to want similar code. I am not really thrilled in the
> idea of having 3 similar copy of the parsing. So can we extract the
> common bits (or harmonize it) so it can be shared?
>
> Maybe Oleksii has already a version doing that.

Just my $0.02, but wouldn't it make more sense to have the RISC-V port
handle the deduplication, seeing as the POWER support came first here?  We
don't know if/when the RISC-V port will be ready for submission, so I'm
not sure why we should be on the hook for this particular work.

Thanks!