Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932670AbaAaRsK (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:48:10 -0500 Received: from mail-vb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.212.44]:65287 "EHLO mail-vb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932170AbaAaRsH (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:48:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <52EA8CFE.7020404@arm.com> References: <1391098262-15944-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <201401301828.59294.arnd@arndb.de> <52EA8CFE.7020404@arm.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:48:06 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: document "mach-virt" platform. From: Rob Herring To: Marc Zyngier Cc: Arnd Bergmann , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Ian Campbell , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Mark Rutland , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Pawel Moll , Stefano Stabellini , Will Deacon , Rob Herring , Kumar Gala , Olof Johansson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Marc Zyngier 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/