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From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/15] xen/arm: update GIC dt node with
	GIC v3 information
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:42:37 +0100
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On 04/04/2014 05:13 PM, Vijay Kilari wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Hello Vijaya,
>>
>> On 04/04/2014 04:45 PM, Vijay Kilari wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>> On 04/04/2014 12:56 PM, vijay.kilari@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> +    if ( hw_type == GIC_VERSION_V3 )
>>>>> +    {
>>>>> +        res = dt_property_read_u32(gic, "redistributor-stride", &rd_stride);
>>>>> +        if ( !res )
>>>>> +            rd_stride = 0;
>>>>> +    }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You have skipped some of my remarks on V1. I would definitely prefer to
>>>> have a callback in your {v,}GIC structure which add the specific GIC
>>>> properties following the version supported by DOM0.
>>>>
>>> Yes, I recognized your comment. My understanding is that while
>>> creating this gic node for
>>> dom0, we should follow the order in creating cells.
>>> Also, the cells are allocated here and these should be passed to gic
>>> driver to fill it.
>>> So looks ugly.
>>
>> I don't understand the issue with the order and the allocation...
>>
>    I mean if we change the order of calling fdt_set_property for
> various properties, the node creation goes wrong.  something like
> this
>   fdt_set_property(fdt, "mycommonprop2",..)
>  fdt_set_property(fdt, "mycommonprop1",..)
> 
> I have given a try and dom0 fails to boot.

Are you sure? DOM0 doesn't care about the order of the properties... it
only care about the name and the content.

>> What do you mean?
>>
>  I mean why can't we move, why can't we move complete make_gic_node
> to gic.c? as below and let it handle hw specific things?
> 
> fdt_set_property(fdt, "mycommonprop1",..)
> fdt_set_property(fdt, "mycommonprop2",..)
> gic_node_specific_properties();
> fdt_end();

That's the solution I've asked on V1...

-- 
Julien Grall