Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 p2 16/19] tools/libxl: arm: Use an higher value for the GIC phandle

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julien Grall writes ("[PATCH v5 p2 16/19] tools/libxl: arm: Use an higher value 
for the GIC phandle"):
> The partial device tree may contains phandle. The Device Tree Compiler
> tends to allocate the phandle from 1.

I have to say I have no idea what a phandle is...

> Reserve the ID 65000 for the GIC phandle. I think we can safely assume
> that the partial device tree will never contain a such ID.

Do we control the DT compiler ?  What if it should change its
phandle allocation algorithm ?

> +/*
> + * The device tree compiler (DTC) is allocating the phandle from 1 to
> + * onwards. Reserve a high value for the GIC phandle.
> + */

FYI this should read "The device tree compiler (DTC) allocates phandle
values frrom 1 onwards".

Thanks,
Ian.

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