[PATCH] arm: document "mach-virt" platform.

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 31 12:48:06 EST 2014


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
> On 30/01/14 17:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Thursday 30 January 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> mach-virt has existed for a while but it is not written down what it actually
>>> consists of. Although it seems a bit unusual to document a binding for an
>>> entire platform since mach-virt is entirely virtual it is helpful to have
>>> something to refer to in the absence of a single concrete implementation.
>>>
>>> I've done my best to capture the requirements based on the git log and my
>>> memory/understanding.
>>>
>>> While here remove the xenvm dts example, the Xen tools will now build a
>>> suitable mach-virt compatible dts when launching the guest.
>>
>> It might be worth noting in the changeset comment that the 'compatible'
>> string is actually no longer needed on newer kernels: All the members
>> of the machine descriptor are now the defaults (we should remove the
>> virt_init() function as well), and the fallback machine descriptor should
>> work just fine if any other string gets passed.
>
> I will ack the patch that removes the mach-virt directory altogether!

Did I never send that one out? I know I started something. Finding new
employment has had me distracted...

Rob



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