On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 11:30, Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marq...@arm.com>
wrote:

> Hi Julien,
>
> > On 12 Apr 2024, at 15:53, Julien Grall <julien.grall....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 18:08, Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Apr 2024, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 19:47, Stefano Stabellini <
> stefano.stabell...@amd.com> wrote:
> > >       xen_ulong_t is widely used in public headers.
> > >
> > >       Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@amd.com>
> > >       ---
> > >
> > >       Given that xen_ulong_t is used in public headers there could be
> a better
> > >       place for documenting it but this was the most straightforward
> to add.
> > >       ---
> > >        docs/misra/C-language-toolchain.rst | 11 +++++++++++
> > >        1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > >
> > >       diff --git a/docs/misra/C-language-toolchain.rst
> b/docs/misra/C-language-toolchain.rst
> > >       index 5ddfe7bdbe..7a334260e6 100644
> > >       --- a/docs/misra/C-language-toolchain.rst
> > >       +++ b/docs/misra/C-language-toolchain.rst
> > >       @@ -531,6 +531,17 @@ A summary table of data types, sizes and
> alignment is below:
> > >             - 64 bits
> > >             - x86_64, ARMv8-A AArch64, RV64, PPC64
> > >
> > >       +   * - xen_ulong_t
> > >       +     - 32 bits
> > >       +     - 32 bits
> > >       +     - x86_32
> > >       +
> > >       +   * - xen_ulong_t
> > >       +     - 64 bits
> > >       +     - 64 bits
> > >       +     - x86_64, ARMv8-A AArch64, RV64, PPC64, ARMv8-A AArch32,
> ARMv8-R
> > >       +       AArch32, ARMv7-A
> > >
> > >
> > > We support neither ARMv8-R nor ARMv8-A Aarch32.
> > >
> > > I could possibly accept the latter because it works to. But the former
> is so far misleading.
> >
> > Yes I think you are right. Moreover this document
> > (C-language-toolchain.rst) is meant for the Xen build. While this patch
> > is trying to document the types used in the public headers for the
> > external-facing ABI.
> >
> > I'll move the information this patch is adding to a separate document,
> > specific to the public headers. I will only add the architectures
> > currently working: I'll add ARMv8-A Aarch32 because although it is
> > unsupported it is interesting to know the size of xen_ulong_t for
> > aarch32 in the public headers. I will remove ARMv8-R as it is not
> > available upstream.
> >
> > Thinking a bit more. What about Armv9? Rather than listing each version,
> should we instead use ARMv7-A aarch32 and later, ARMv8-A aarch64 and later?
>
> Definitely you are right here but as for Armv8-R, Armv9 is not something
> that we explicitely support right now (even though it should work).


I am confused with the comparison. I thought you can’t boot Xen at all on
Armv8-R. But you can on Armv9-A as this just Armv8-A + features the
software don’t need to use.

Did you intend to draw the comparison with Armv8-A Aarch32?

Cheers,


>
> Cheers
> Bertrand
>
>
>

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