Re: [MirageOS-devel] Solo5 and ukvm ARM supports

[Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Anil,

On 2017/1/19 18:18, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 19 Jan 2017, at 09:51, Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are engineers from ARM. We're trying to port solo5 and ukvm to ARM.
>> Currently, we are in the very first stage, the first plan could be
>> porting solo5 and ukvm to KVM/Linux platform with ARM64 architecture.
>> We'd like to discuss with you here to push this project to be multiple
>> architectures/platforms support.
>
> Dear Wei,
>
> Welcome aboard! I'm excited to hear that you are working on ARM
> support. I have several things in preparation that should help upstreaming
> your work to Mirage:
>

Thanks for your warm welcome and kind of mention for the preparation.

> - we have aarch64-ci.ocaml.io hosted on Packet.net, and are debugging
>   Docker support for it at the moment. That will give us a 96-core ARM64
>   build machine for the CI, to test packages on once you have ukvm patches.
>

That's great, you have a powerful ARM server! Is there any document
about the process? Sooner or later we will need that.:-)

> - I also have some Odroid C2 aarch64 boxes that have been proposed
>   for use for home routing infrastructure, and so this would be a nice place
>   to test some of the patches. If anyone going to Marrakech on the March
>   hackathon wants some to get working, let me know!
>

Currently, we are testing our patches on a Seattle based aarch64 server,
I also find an Odroid C2 aarch64 boxes, if it would be more convenient,
I will set up an environment on it too.

We are considering about the hackathon, but I found the register date is
closed on January 15th, 2017.

> - OCaml itself has excellent aarch64 support since 4.03, and has passed
>   several bulk builds on the Fedora repository. It can be considered stable
>   and so means that the rest of MirageOS's library ecosystem will "just work"
>   once the ukvm and Solo5 pieces are in place.
>

It's great! Currently we're using aarch64 Ubuntu, most of OCaml packages
can be installed directly except some mirage-solo5 packages which are
depending on the ukvm and solo5 kernel. :-(

> If you have any questions about the tooling or other parts of Mirage, please
> don't hesitate to ask on this list.

Thank you

>
> regards,
> Anil
>


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