[PATCH v3 13/17] ARM: Xen: Document UEFI support on Xen ARM virtual platforms
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Jan 25 07:59:22 PST 2016
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 03:50:52PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> > From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
> >
> > Add a "uefi" node under /hypervisor node in FDT, then Linux kernel could
> > scan this to get the UEFI information.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
> > Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> > ---
> > CC: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> > ---
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
> > index 0f7b9c2..aa69405 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
> > @@ -15,6 +15,26 @@ the following properties:
> > - interrupts: the interrupt used by Xen to inject event notifications.
> > A GIC node is also required.
> >
> > +To support UEFI on Xen ARM virtual platforms, Xen populates the FDT "uefi" node
> > +under /hypervisor with following parameters:
> > +
> > +________________________________________________________________________________
> > +Name | Size | Description
> > +================================================================================
> > +xen,uefi-system-table | 64-bit | Guest physical address of the UEFI System
> > + | | Table.
> > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > +xen,uefi-mmap-start | 64-bit | Guest physical address of the UEFI memory
> > + | | map.
> > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > +xen,uefi-mmap-size | 32-bit | Size in bytes of the UEFI memory map
> > + | | pointed to in previous entry.
> > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > +xen,uefi-mmap-desc-size | 32-bit | Size in bytes of each entry in the UEFI
> > + | | memory map.
> > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > +xen,uefi-mmap-desc-ver | 32-bit | Version of the mmap descriptor format.
> > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Example (assuming #address-cells = <2> and #size-cells = <2>):
> >
> > @@ -22,4 +42,18 @@ hypervisor {
> > compatible = "xen,xen-4.3", "xen,xen";
> > reg = <0 0xb0000000 0 0x20000>;
> > interrupts = <1 15 0xf08>;
> > + uefi {
> > + xen,uefi-system-table = <0xXXXXXXXX>;
> > + xen,uefi-mmap-start = <0xXXXXXXXX>;
> > + xen,uefi-mmap-size = <0xXXXXXXXX>;
> > + xen,uefi-mmap-desc-size = <0xXXXXXXXX>;
> > + xen,uefi-mmap-desc-ver = <0xXXXXXXXX>;
> > + };
> > };
> > +
> > +The format and meaning of these "xen,uefi-*" parameters are similar to those in
> > +Documentation/arm/uefi.txt which are used by normal UEFI. But to distinguish
> > +from normal UEFI, for Xen ARM virtual platforms it needs to introduce a Xen
> > +specific UEFI which requires Xen hypervisor to provide hypercalls for Dom0 to
> > +make use of the runtime services. Therefore, it defines these parameters under
> > +/hypervisor node.
>
> Please replace the paragraph with the following which mentions
> include/xen/interface/platform.h and improves the wording:
>
> "The format and meaning of the "xen,uefi-*" parameters are similar to
> those in Documentation/arm/uefi.txt, which are provided by the regular
> UEFI stub. However they differ because they are provided by the Xen
> hypervisor, together with a set of UEFI runtime services implemented via
> hypercalls, see include/xen/interface/platform.h."
I would prefer if we didn't refer to Linux paths here, for the usual
rationale of keeping bindings distinct from Linux implementation
details.
Could we either drop the "see include/xen/interface/platform.h" part, or
refer to some Xen documentation?
Thanks,
Mark.
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