RE: [XenARM] RE: xen-arm mailing list archive

["ROSSIER Daniel" <Daniel.Rossier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: George G. Davis [mailto:gdavis@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: jeudi 13 septembre 2007 16:28
>To: ROSSIER Daniel
>Cc: Toni Nikkanen; xen-arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [XenARM] RE: xen-arm mailing list archive
>
>On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:20:03PM +0200, ROSSIER Daniel wrote:
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Toni Nikkanen [mailto:toni.nikkanen@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>> >Sent: jeudi 13 septembre 2007 13:37
>> >To: ROSSIER Daniel
>> >Subject: Re: xen-arm mailing list archive
>> >
>> >
>> >Actually I was trying to read the xen-arm archives because I am
>trying
>> >to find out, what is the
>> >status of Xen on the ARM architecture.
>
>> >I am aware of the presentation
>> >given by Samsung at the Xen
>> >Summit of this year and it looks very interesting, however there is
>no
>> >mention if they are going to
>> >release their ARM port to general use or not.
>
>FWIW, I also asked about the Samsung port a few months back and heard
no
>replies from anyone:
>
>http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-07/msg00136.htm
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>
>
>> >I have also found two
>> >university lab projects that
>> >have reached various levels of completion in porting Xen to ARM -
and
>> >then I found your
>> >announcement on xen-devel.
>>
>> Indeed, we also sent several mails to Samsung but never got any
>answer.
>> Maybe, they still hesitate
>> to release their code to the open source community.
>>
>> I am especially interested in Xen on ARM11
>> >MPCore processors, for
>> >running Linux guests. I would be grateful if you could fill me in on
>> the
>> >current situation and
>> >especially if you're aware of anyone interested in supporting the
>ARM11
>> >MPCore. Thank you!
>>
>> I've no experience with the ARM11 core, but I guess we should start
>> investigations on these series in
>> the upcoming months.
>
>We're also interested in working on Xen support for ARM11 (UP for
>now) and ARM in general.
>
>
>> At the moment, we still focus on ARM9 or Xscale
>> series.
>
>We plan to focus on ARM1136 but will also use ARM926 for development.
>
>
>> Daniel Ferstay, who graduated at the University of British Columbia
>did
>> a great job; he ported the hypervisor on a StrongARM-based platform
>> enabling the support of one guest OS. I recommend the reading of his
>> Master thesis which may significantly help in understanding the major
>> issues regarding the port, especially the memory management:
>> http://www.cs.ubc.ca/grads/resources/thesis/May06/Ferstay_Daniel.pdf
>
>Although we were aware of the Ferstay et al paper, we were not aware
>that they had that much progress.  It's nice to here that they have
>already completed their port and hope we all get to see the source
soon.
>
>
>> Another port was ongoing at UIUC (University of Illinois at
>> Urbana-Champaign) by Philip Reames, but I've been informed
>> that they stopped their work and shifted toward the development of
>> avirtualization system based on L4 and some of the new features of
the
>> ARMv6 architecture.
>>
>> I kindly asked Daniel Ferstay if I was authorized to publish his code
>> over the mailing list and now waiting for his answer.
>
>It would be fantastic if Ferstay et al would publish their code!
>Perhaps
>the folks at Xensource would host a Xen ARM HG repository once we have
>that code available (although I would personally prefer a GIT
repository
>myself  : ).  That may also then encourage more active development and
>contributions from others lurking on the list.

Daniel has kindly accepted to broadcast his source code; unfortunately,
the
file is 3MB large and I wasn't able to send it over the mailing list. Of
course, it
will make sense to push it to the XEN repository;
any advice from xen-source? For me, no matter if svn, git or whatever is
used...).

>
>
>> (Or maybe he can do it himself directly :-))
>
>Would it be impolite to add Daniel Ferstay to the dist list or did
>you already BCC him?

I guess he did it.

And, again thanks very much for Daniel's support and contributions.

>
>Meanwhile, we're also interested in porting Xen to ARM and would like
>to participate in the community porting effort to help get this moving
>along out in the open...
>
>> Daniel
>
>--
>Regards,
>George

Daniel


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