Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 01/18] arm/altp2m: Add cmd-line support for altp2m on ARM.

[Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.k.lengyel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 04/07/16 12:45, Sergej Proskurin wrote:
>>
>> The Xen altp2m subsystem is currently supported only on x86-64 based
>> architectures. By utilizing ARM's virtualization extensions, we intend
>> to implement altp2m support for ARM architectures and thus further
>> extend current Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) capabilities on ARM.
>>
>> With this commit, Xen is now able to activate altp2m support on ARM by
>> means of the command-line argument 'altp2m' (bool).
>
>
> Thinking a bit more about this patch. Why do we need an option to enable
> altp2m? All the code could be gated by the value of HVM_PARAM_ALTP2M.
>

I think the reasoning for having the altp2m boot parameter when it was
introduced for x86 was that altp2m is considered experimental. IMHO it
is stable enough so that we can forgo the boot param altogether.

Tamas

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