Re: [PATCH v3 06/25] docs: Xen ARM DT bindings

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Aug 27 2012 - 19:03:50 EST


On 08/16/2012 10:35 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Add a doc to describe the Xen ARM device tree bindings
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: devicetree-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ec6d884
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
> +* Xen hypervisor device tree bindings
> +
> +Xen ARM virtual platforms shall have the following properties:
> +
> +- compatible:
> + compatible = "xen,xen", "xen,xen-<version>";
> + where <version> is the version of the Xen ABI of the platform.
> +
> +- reg: specifies the base physical address and size of a region in
> + memory where the grant table should be mapped to, using an
> + HYPERVISOR_memory_op hypercall.
> +
> +- interrupts: the interrupt used by Xen to inject event notifications.

You should look at ePAPR 1.1 which defines hypervisor related bindings.
While it is a PPC doc, we should reuse or extend what makes sense.

See section 7.5:

https://www.power.org/resources/downloads/Power_ePAPR_APPROVED_v1.1.pdf

Rob

> +
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +hypervisor {
> + compatible = "xen,xen", "xen,xen-4.3";
> + reg = <0xb0000000 0x20000>;
> + interrupts = <1 15 0xf08>;
> +};
>

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