Hi Simon On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 19:05, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Tom, > > On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 10:56, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 05:40:46PM +0000, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote: > > > Hi, Simon! > > > > > > Sorry for being late to the party > > > > > > On 02.12.21 17:59, Simon Glass wrote: > > > > Add an empty file to prevent build errors when building with > > > > CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE enabled. > > > > > > > > The build instructions in U-Boot do not provide enough detail to > build a > > > > useful devicetree, unfortunately. > > > Xen guest doesn't use any built-in device trees as the guest's device > tree is provided > > > by the Xen hypervisor itself and is generated at the virtual machine > creation time: it is > > > populated with memory size, number of CPUs etc. based on [1]. > > > So, even if we provide some device tree here it must not be used by > U-boot at > > > the end of the day. Thus, it might be a reasonable solution to provide > an empty device > > > tree as you do, but put a comment that it is not used. > > > > So another example of why this series is taking things in the wrong > > direction. > > Why? I only had that comment in mind: "there is none so deaf as he who will not hear." > At least we might figure out where to get the DT and how to run > Xen with U-Boot. I don't see any down-side to having a basic DT in the > tree along with instructions on how to run Xen. > If an EMPTY device is what is required to pass current build constraints, so be it, and let's correct that in a later patch. And EMPTY is not basic. > Regards, > Simon > -- François-Frédéric Ozog | *Director Business Development* T: +33.67221.6485 francois.o...@linaro.org | Skype: ffozog
