[PATCH v6 09/25] arm: xenguest_arm64: Add a fake devicetree file

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 10:56, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Why? At least we might figure out where to get the DT and how to run
Xen with U-Boot. I don't see any down-side to having a basic DT in the
tree along with instructions on how to run Xen.

Regards,
Simon