Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC for next] xen: make grant table configurable

[Ed Vielmetti <ed@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes! I'd love to hear more about what you did, to help me further promote Xen as a Works on Arm supported project. Also, I'd love to hear more details about the Gitlab integration, as I am working diligently to get arm64 support into their mainline roadmap.

thanks

Ed

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 12:41 PM Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:36:57AM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > Introduce CONFIG_GRANT_TABLE. Provide stubs and make sure x86 and arm
> > > hypervisors build with grant table disabled.
> >
> > Looks like a good idea.
> >
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > I did this when I worked on splitting PV and HVM and thought this
> > > might be useful and it was simple enough to get done.
> > >
> > > RFC because I can envisage some configurations in the distant future
> > > do away with grant table and event channel. There is small a benefit
> > > to consider accepting this patch now so that Gitlab's randconf build
> > > can start testing with grant table turned off right away.
> >
> > Can Gitlab do Arm hypervisor builds?
>
> Yes. I hooked up a box from WorksOnArm for Arm64 builds.

Very nice!! You should write a blog post or something about it.

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