From: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
Pawel Moll <Pawel.Moll@arm.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: document "mach-virt" platform.
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:48:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL_JsqJeka0KeejY4LpGFd7hfYo_OKnnH8QWjSXkcgedvA6BZg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52EA8CFE.7020404@arm.com>
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
> On 30/01/14 17:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Thursday 30 January 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> mach-virt has existed for a while but it is not written down what it actually
>>> consists of. Although it seems a bit unusual to document a binding for an
>>> entire platform since mach-virt is entirely virtual it is helpful to have
>>> something to refer to in the absence of a single concrete implementation.
>>>
>>> I've done my best to capture the requirements based on the git log and my
>>> memory/understanding.
>>>
>>> While here remove the xenvm dts example, the Xen tools will now build a
>>> suitable mach-virt compatible dts when launching the guest.
>>
>> It might be worth noting in the changeset comment that the 'compatible'
>> string is actually no longer needed on newer kernels: All the members
>> of the machine descriptor are now the defaults (we should remove the
>> virt_init() function as well), and the fallback machine descriptor should
>> work just fine if any other string gets passed.
>
> I will ack the patch that removes the mach-virt directory altogether!
Did I never send that one out? I know I started something. Finding new
employment has had me distracted...
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-31 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-30 16:11 [PATCH] arm: document "mach-virt" platform Ian Campbell
2014-01-30 16:54 ` Christopher Covington
2014-01-30 17:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-01-30 17:15 ` Ian Campbell
2014-01-30 17:43 ` Christopher Covington
2014-02-03 4:56 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-02-03 11:14 ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-03 13:46 ` Christopher Covington
2014-02-03 17:41 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-01-30 17:13 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-01-30 17:21 ` Ian Campbell
2014-01-30 17:24 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-01-30 17:29 ` Ian Campbell
2014-01-30 17:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-01-30 17:33 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-01-31 17:48 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2014-01-30 17:33 ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-03 4:54 ` Christoffer Dall
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