[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: improve dom0less documentation
Improve Dom0-less documentation: include a complete configuration example. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefanos@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/docs/features/dom0less.pandoc b/docs/features/dom0less.pandoc index 4e342b7..e076e37 100644 --- a/docs/features/dom0less.pandoc +++ b/docs/features/dom0less.pandoc @@ -23,6 +23,70 @@ booted and the Xen tools to become available, domains created by Xen this way are started right away in parallel. Hence, their boot time is typically much shorter. + +Configuration +------------- + +### Loading binaries into memory ### + +U-Boot needs to load not just Xen, the device tree binary, the dom0 kernel and +ramdisk. It also needs to load the kernel and ramdisk of any additional domains +to boot. For example if this is the bootcmd for Xen and Dom0: + + tftpb 0x1280000 xen.dtb + tftpb 0x0x80000 xen-Image + tftpb 0x1400000 xen.ub + tftpb 0x9000000 xen-rootfs.cpio.gz.u-boot + + bootm 0x1400000 0x9000000 0x1280000 + +If we want to add one DomU with Image-DomU as the DomU kernel +and ramdisk-DomU as DomU ramdisk: + + tftpb 0x1280000 xen.dtb + tftpb 0x80000 xen-Image + tftpb 0x1400000 xen.ub + tftpb 0x9000000 xen-rootfs.cpio.gz.u-boot + + tftpb 0x2000000 Image-DomU + tftpb 0x3000000 ramdisk-DomU + + bootm 0x1400000 0x9000000 0x1280000 + + +### Device Tree configuration ### + +In addition to loading the necessary binaries, we also need to advertise +the presence of the additional VM and its configuration. It is done via +device tree adding a node under /chosen as follows: + + domU1 { + compatible = "xen,domain"; + memory = <0x20000>; + cpus = 1; + vpl011; + + module@2000000 { + compatible = "multiboot,kernel", "multiboot,module"; + reg = <0x2000000 0xffffff>; + bootargs = "console=ttyAMA0"; + }; + + module@30000000 { + compatible = "multiboot,ramdisk", "multiboot,module"; + reg = <0x3000000 0xffffff>; + }; + }; + +Where memory is the memory of the VM in KBs, cpus is the number of +cpus. module@2000000 and module@3000000 advertise where the kernel and +ramdisk are in memory. + +See docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt for more information. + +Limitations +----------- + Domains started by Xen at boot time currently have the following limitations: _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
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