[PATCH v6 09/25] arm: xenguest_arm64: Add a fake devicetree file
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Thu Dec 2 18:56:17 CET 2021
On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 05:40:46PM +0000, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> Hi, Simon!
>
> Sorry for being late to the party
>
> On 02.12.21 17:59, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Add an empty file to prevent build errors when building with
> > CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE enabled.
> >
> > The build instructions in U-Boot do not provide enough detail to build a
> > useful devicetree, unfortunately.
> Xen guest doesn't use any built-in device trees as the guest's device tree is provided
> by the Xen hypervisor itself and is generated at the virtual machine creation time: it is
> populated with memory size, number of CPUs etc. based on [1].
> So, even if we provide some device tree here it must not be used by U-boot at
> the end of the day. Thus, it might be a reasonable solution to provide an empty device
> tree as you do, but put a comment that it is not used.
So another example of why this series is taking things in the wrong
direction.
--
Tom
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