[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH ARM v6 00/14] mini-os: initial ARM support
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 22:29 +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > > There are two assumptions the code makes that may need changing in the > > future, but > > which hopefully don't need to hold up this initial support: > > > > - The assumption that the kernel will be loaded at start of RAM + 0x8000. > > > > - The assumption that Xen will mark the GIC address range as device memory. > > This should probably be fixed when the C code gains the ability to > > control > > the translation tables, map 4K pages, etc. > > I'm fine with the assumptions for an initial support. Did you write-down > somewhere those restrictions? So if an issue happen in the future, we > will be able to find quickly the issue. Yeah. we can live with them for now, I think. It should be documented though. What sort of time line are you foreseeing for fixing them, in terms of before or after 4.5? We should probably consider sticking a "tech preview" or similar label on mini-os/ARM in 4.5 if these issues remain (the load address one in particular). Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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