[PATCH v1 2/6] dt-bindings: hypervisor: Add binding for MediaTek GenieZone hypervisor

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Thu Apr 13 06:05:05 PDT 2023


On 13/04/2023 11:07, 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

Subject: drop second/last, redundant "binding for". The "dt-bindings"
prefix is already stating that these are bindings.

> able to do virtual machine operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yingshiuan Pan <yingshiuan.pan at mediatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yi-De Wu <yi-de.wu at mediatek.com>
> ---
>  .../bindings/hypervisor/mediatek,gzvm.yaml    | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hypervisor/mediatek,gzvm.yaml
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hypervisor/mediatek,gzvm.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hypervisor/mediatek,gzvm.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..35e1e5b18e47
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hypervisor/mediatek,gzvm.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/hypervisor/mediatek,gzvm.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: MediaTek GenieZone hypervisor
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Yingshiuan Pan <yingshiuan.pan at mediatek.com>
> +
> +description:
> +  GenieZone is MediaTek proprietary hypervisor. This device node informs its
> +  driver, gzvm, to probe if platform supports running virtual machines.

Do not describe Linux, we all know how driver binding works, but
hardware/firmware/hypervisor.

I don't know if we actually want to support proprietary hypervisors.
There can be hundreds of them, one per each SoC manufacturer, and they
can come with many ridiculous ideas.

> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    const: mediatek,gzvm
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +
> +additionalProperties: false
> +
> +examples:
> +  - |
> +    hypervisor {
> +        compatible = "mediatek,gzvm";
> +        status = "okay";

Drop status.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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