[PATCH v2 2/7] dt-bindings: hypervisor: Add MediaTek GenieZone hypervisor

Yi-De Wu (吳一德) Yi-De.Wu at mediatek.com
Sun May 21 20:28:57 PDT 2023


On Fri, 2023-05-12 at 12:01 +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 06:42:51AM +0000, Yi-De Wu (吳一德) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-04-28 at 16:24 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > External email : Please do not click links or open attachments
> > > until
> > > you have verified the sender or the content.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 06:36:17PM +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.
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Rob
> > 
> > Can do, our hypervisor is discoverable through invoking probing
> > hypercall, and we use the device tree to prevent unnecessary module
> > loading on all systems.
> 
> Please do not wait until immediately prior to submitting version N+1
> before replying to any of the comments on version N.
> This creates a confusing scenario, where some review comments may be
> missed due to parallel discussion.
> 
> Thanks,
> Conor.
> 
Noted, we would stop updating newer version until there's some
consensus to do so.


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