Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 07/13] ARM: Xen: Document UEFI support on Xen ARM virtual platforms

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On 2015/11/18 0:46, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 17/11/15 09:57, shannon.zhao@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Add a "uefi" node under /hypervisor node in FDT, then Linux kernel could
>> scan this to get the UEFI information.
> [...]
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
>> @@ -15,6 +15,24 @@ the following properties:
>>  - interrupts: the interrupt used by Xen to inject event notifications.
>>    A GIC node is also required.
>>  
>> +To support UEFI on Xen ARM virtual platforms, Xen pupulates the FDT "uefi" node
>> +under /hypervisor with following parameters:
> 
> It's not really clear why this is under /hypervisor and why xen needs to
> define its own nodes.
> 
> The handling of the existing linux standard nodes can be made
> Xen-specific by the presence of the /hypervisor/compatible == "xen" node
> (or similar), right?
> 
Right. The reason is that we want to separate this Xen specific UEFI
from the normal UEFI. Don't make them mixed together.

>> +________________________________________________________________________________
>> +Name                      | Size   | Description
>> +================================================================================
>> +xen,uefi-system-table     | 64-bit | Physical address of the UEFI System Table.
>> +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +xen,uefi-mmap-start       | 64-bit | Physical address of the UEFI memory map.
>> +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I would probably say "Guest physical address..." just to be clear.
> 
>> +xen,uefi-mmap-size        | 32-bit | Size in bytes of the UEFI memory map
>> +                          |        | pointed to in previous entry.
>> +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +xen,uefi-mmap-desc-size   | 32-bit | Size in bytes of each entry in the UEFI
>> +                          |        | memory map.
>> +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +xen,uefi-mmap-desc-ver    | 32-bit | Version of the mmap descriptor format.
>> +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Need a reference to the mmap descriptor format here.
> 
> David
> 
> .
> 

-- 
Shannon

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