Re: [Minios-devel] [PATCH 00/40] MINI-OS: enable the arm64 support

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 11:49:16AM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> I can see two solutions going forward:
>       1) The arm directory is first reshaped to welcome arm64. This means:
>               * moving out arm32 specific code
>               * switch to LPAE page-table
>               * introducing helpers for common code to call arch-specific code
>          On the code is reshaped, the arm64 series is added on top.
> 
>       2) Start the arm64 port from a clean slate and then port arm32 over.
> 
> Knowing the state of the arm32 port, I would lean towards 2). This would
> allow more flexibility and make easier to review. At the moment, I have to
> hunt down the code to see what is missing.
> 
> I would be interested to hear the opinion of the maintainers here.

If you're sure arm32 can't work, #2 is probably easier.  Please stick a
patch at the beginning to rip out the old port. That can easily be
applied.

Also may I suggest the new port follow $arch/$subarch hierarchy? Just
like what we do in Xen.

_______________________________________________
Minios-devel mailing list
Minios-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/minios-devel