Re: [Xen-devel] Xen on POWER

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 10:38:00AM -0000, awokd wrote:
> On Fri, March 9, 2018 10:03 am, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > On 09/03/2018 09:37, awokd wrote:
> 
> >
> > Xen currently has x86 and ARM as supported architectures, so there is a
> > reasonable split between common and arch-specific code.  As a start, you'd
> > need to implement enough of the arch stubs to make Power9 build, then work
> > on trying to get it to boot.
> >
> > As a guess, the ARM port is going to be far closer to what you're
> > looking to do than the x86 side.
> 
> Thanks for your reply, that helps. Would it make sense to target 4.8.3
> stable to mostly avoid trying to hit a moving target, then port "up"? I'll

No, please don't. Always work on staging. Otherwise your port will be
broken left, right and centre by other people's changes.

Upstream your code bit by bit to staging is the best way forward.

Wei.

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