Hi all, I wanted to know how Xen-ARM for A15 will address following concerns: - How will Xen-ARM for A15 support legacy guest environment like ARMv5 or ARMv6 ? - What if my Cortex-A15 board does not have a GIC with virtualization support ? Best Regards, Anup Patel On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2011, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > Hi all, > > a few weeks ago I (and a few others) started hacking on a > > proof-of-concept hypervisor port to Cortex-A15 which uses and requires > > ARMv7 virtualization extensions. The intention of this work was to find > > out how to best support ARM v7+ on Xen. See > > > http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-arm/2011-09/msg00013.html > > for more details. > > > > I am pleased to announce that significant progress has been made, and > > that we now have a nascent Xen port for Cortex-A15. The port is based on > > xen-unstable (HG CS 8d6edc3d26d2) and written from scratch exploiting > > the latest virtualization, LPAE, GIC and generic timer support in > > hardware. > > Very nice! > > Do you have a pointer to the kernel sources for the Linux guest? > Since Xen and KVM are both in an early working state right now, > it would be very nice if we could agree on the guest model to make > sure that it's always possible to run the same kernel in both > (and potentially other future) hypervisors without modifications. > > Arnd > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/android-virt/attachments/20111129/37553e90/attachment-0001.html
