[RFC] Add support for Xen ARM guest on FreeBSD
Julien Grall
julien.grall at linaro.org
Sun Jan 19 00:56:42 UTC 2014
On 01/17/2014 09:29 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 00:36 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
>> IanC: I was reading the linux binding documentation
>> (devicetree/booting-without-of.txt VII.2) and it seems that the
>> explanation differs from the implementation, right?
>
> I vaguely recall someone saying that the Linux behaviour was a quirk of
> some real PPC system which supplied a DTB which required this behaviour
> which has leaked into the other platforms. It does also sound like a
> useful extension to the spec which makes the dtb easier to write.
I've read twice the ePAR and did some test. I was completely wrong, this
file is valid with the ePAR (there is even an example like that at the
end at the specification). And FreeBSD doesn't complain about this since
Nathan's ofw/fdt rework.
Sorry for the waste time.
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Julien Grall
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