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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1208281823270.15568@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:07:16 +0100
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
CC:	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>,
	"arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"catalin.marinas@....com" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org" 
	<devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"Tim (Xen.org)" <tim@....org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/25] docs: Xen ARM DT bindings

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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@...citrix.com>
> > CC: devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
> > CC: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
> > ---
> >  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

Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of ePAPR.

The hypervisor node defined by ePAPR is not very different from what I
am proposing. Should I try to be compatible with the hypervisor
specification above (as in compatible = "epapr,hypervisor-1.1")?
Or should I just use it as a reference for my own specification?

Personally I would rather avoid full compatibility with ePAPR.
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