Re: [XenPPC] DomU device tree plan

[Jimi Xenidis <jimix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 30, 2006, at 7:22 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> > Oh, did I mention we're looking to use a flattened device tree?  
> > That way
> > we can omit the OF client interface firmware code we currently  
> > load into
> > domUs. (We could still supply a client interface for other OSs in the
> > future, if needed, and that code would interpret the flattened tree
> > itself.)
> Using a flat dev tree sure sounds like the easiest approach right now.
> But please structure the code (on the Linux side) in such a way that
> you could use "real OF" as well, esp. since most of the code to do so
> already exists.
hmm, _real_ domain firmware, but since we'd have to magically pass it  
stuff about the domain I think we would still use the flattened tree  
for that, then the real OF could be booted like linux and then start  
with that tree before it modifies that tree before linux actually runs.
I await the XenoSLOF patch :-*

-JX

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