On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:45:57AM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 19/09/12 18:44, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vexpress-xenvm-4.2.dts
>
> Does this make sense? There is no fixed configuration for VMs.
>
> Is the intention to pass a DTS to the toolstack for it to create the VM
> with the appropriate amount of memory and peripheral mapped to the right
> place etc? Or is the toolstack going to create the VM and generate the
> DTB from (e.g.,) an xl VM configuration file.
>
> > +
> > + hypervisor {
> > + compatible = "xen,xen-4.2", "xen,xen";
> > + reg = <0xb0000000 0x20000>;
> > + interrupts = <1 15 0xf08>;
> > + };
>
> This node needs to be generated by the toolstack as only it knows what
> ABI the hypervisor has.
That's a good point: the same applies to the command line. The toolstack
knows where the console and root device should be etc.: the kernel itself
shouldn't have static defaults for those.
Cheers
---Dave
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