[PATCH v3 2/7] dt-bindings: hypervisor: Add MediaTek GenieZone hypervisor

Yi-De Wu (吳一德) Yi-De.Wu at mediatek.com
Wed Jun 7 23:11:38 PDT 2023


On Fri, 2023-05-12 at 12:09 +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 04:04:00PM +0800, Yi-De Wu wrote:
> > From: "Yingshiuan Pan" <yingshiuan.pan at mediatek.com>
> > 
> > Add documentation for GenieZone(gzvm) node. This node informs gzvm
> > driver to start probing if geniezone hypervisor is available and
> > able to do virtual machine operations.
> 
> Propagated from v2:
> > > Why can't the driver just try and do virtual machine operations
> > > to
> > > see
> > > if the hypervisor is there? IOW, make your software interfaces
> > > discoverable. DT is for non-discoverable hardware.
> > 
> > Can do, our hypervisor is discoverable through invoking probing
> > hypercall, and we use the device tree to prevent unnecessary module
> > loading on all systems.
> 
> Rob is out of office at the moment, but that appears to be a request
> to
> drop the use of devicetree entirely. Mainly re-posting so that that
> conversation appears on the latest version of the patchset, given you
> only replied to Rob today.
> 
> Thanks,
> Conor.

We will remove our dt here and use the discoverable way to initialize
our devices. V4 patches which contain the changes mentioned would be
submitted soon in recent days.


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