Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 for ARM

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 15:09 +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:25:55PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > What's with 64-bit ARM?
> > 
> > TBH I thought the GRuB On ARM stuff was mainly targeting 64-bit (at
> > least within Linaro). Do you have native grub on 32-bit ARM already
> > then?
> 
> Linaro Enterprise Group (where I am) is now almost exclusively focusing
> on 64-bit, but that only became the case after Connect in Dublin (July).

Ah, in Dublin I think I concluded that my previous understanding was
wrong, not that things were changing!

> U-Boot on aarch32 was the first port, since that is what the first
> available hardware was using. Then came UEFI on aarch64.
> 
> > As far as 64-bit hardware goes you will have a struggle finding any at
> > all right now, nevermind for under $100.
> > 
> > We should at some point be able to support the freely (as in beer)
> > available Foundation model, but we don't right now.
> 
> There are instructions for how to build and run Tianocore edk2 (UEFI)
> on it:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=ArmPlatformPkg/AArch64

Thanks, that's useful, although by "we" there I meant Xen (still, useful
info).

Ian.



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