On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 04:42:08PM +0000, Alexander Spyridakis wrote: > On 18 December 2012 12:10, Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@xxxxxxx<mailto:Liviu.Dudau@xxxxxxx>> wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > Could you explain with a bit more detail what's the intended usage > scenario for this code? > > If you have BootMonitor, it is already capable of booting the kernel. > > The major difference is that BootMonitor doesn't initialize Hyp mode and without it we can't start KVM. > > Initially (back in the TC1 era), I tried to run linux-system.axf as is, but BootMonitor wasn't (and still isn't I think) able to execute elf files with multiple program headers. The solution for me at the time was to load the kernel image separately and run a simplified version of the bootwrapper. Of course this would only work for CPU0 as the rest of the cores are already set to sleep by BootMonitor (contrary to FastModels). > > This patch tries to unify usage of the bootwrapper for both FastModels and the Versatile Express board, without being intrusive to the FastModels code path. Actually any changes to boot.S are bound for the board binary only. > > Regards. Hi Alexander, Thanks for the explanation. As for having an unified boot process, using UEFI it's more likely to lead to that rather than waiting on BootMon to support HYP mode. Regards, Liviu > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev -- ==================== | I would like to | | fix the world, | | but they're not | | giving me the | \ source code! / --------------- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/kvmarm
