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Re: [Embedded-pv-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/18] System adjustment to customer needs.



Hello Meng,

On 20/05/2016 16:21, Meng Xu wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Andrii Anisov
<andrii.anisov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If the board is not supported by Xen, can we say Xen will support the
board with the warkaround?

I would not say boards are supported by XEN (except earlyprintk).
Rather architectures are supported in general, and SoC's are supported
in architecture implementation defined deviations (i.e. SMMU absence).

Yes. I searched around for the "Jacinto 6" Automotive processor.[1]
It uses Cortex A15 processor...
However, I tried the Arndale Octo board two years ago
(http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page). From my
previous experience, the board may not be supported by Xen even though
the processor it uses has virtualization extension.. :-(

It would like to correct you here. Xen (and KVM) can run on any board providing virtual extensions, a GIC and an architectural timer are available.

However, some vendor ship boards with a firmware/bootloader that will enter the kernel in EL1 rather than EL2 (i.e the hyp mode).

The bootloader is often U-boot and the upstream version may support the board. So if the bootloader is entered in a mode that allows to switch to HYP mode (either EL3 or secure EL1), then you can recompile U-boot and flash your board. Otherwise, the source may be shipped and you can hack around to entered Xen to HYP mode.

Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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