Re: [Qemu-ppc] [SLOF] [PATCH v4] board-qemu: add private hcall to inform host on "phandle" update

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:26:09PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 27.09.2017 11:30, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:15:43PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> >> 2. At quiesce time, SLOF will linearize it's current version of the DT
> >>    and submit it to H_UPDATE_DT
> > 
> > That will work.  It's a big hammer, but that also means it will solve
> > many related future problems.  I like it :-)
> 
> ... it's likely just yet another slow-down to the boot process.
> Linearizing the whole DT in Forth might take a while, I guess.

Do we have to do it in forth?  We could make a C extension to do this,
no?

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