Re: package xen for aarch64

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Ricardo Salveti wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:12 PM, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Oct 2016, Anders Roxell wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to package dpdk for aarch64, but package xen-devel is missing.
> >> Looking at the xen spec file, it seems the problem is the lack of a
> >> compatible efi firmware for arm64, is that really the case?
> >
> > In Fedora, it is just that I haven't got around to adding ARM support, and
> > as I have no way of testing it, I can't tell whether what is built will
> > actually work. The current spec file is based around x86 but it should be
> > possible to adapt it to allow ARM builds - I have experimented with it in
> > the past.
> 
> We can definitely help testing the rpm, once there is one rpm that is
> compatible with aarch64.
> 
> Marcin, do you know if there is already an aarch64-compatible efi
> image for Fedora? I believe it would also make sense to build xen with
> efi support on aarch64.

I have done a temporary build of the Fedora 25 xen package adapted for 
aarch64 at 
http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3757184

Could you test it and see if it works or needs further modification. If it 
is satifactory then I will look at adding aarch64 support to the main 
Fedora package.

	Michael Young
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