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

Conor Dooley conor.dooley at microchip.com
Fri May 12 04:09:27 PDT 2023


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.
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