Re: [Xen-devel] Portin Xen to other HW-platform

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:51:23AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 15:49 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 29.05.13 at 16:02, klasse <claen763@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Is it hard work to port Xen to a custom HW-platform (with a PPC CPU)?
> > 
> > A PowerPC port existed in Xen up to 3.2.x, so your best bet would
> > probably be to revive that one.
> 
> Do you remember if that was that a PV port (PV MMU in particular)? 
> 
> PPC has a hypervisor mode (or modes?) but does it have second stage
> paging? If it does then a hybrid model like we've gone for on ARM would
> be preferable for a new/rejuvenated port, IMNSHO.
> 

Some information about the old PPC port is here:
http://wiki.xen.org/old-wiki/xenwiki/XenPPC.html

-- Pasi


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