Re: Xen-ARM DomUs

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 15/12/2020 02:16, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> Finally getting to the truly productive stages of my project with Xen on
> ARM.
>
> How many of the OSes which function as x86 DomUs for Xen, function as
> ARM DomUs?  Getting Linux operational was straightforward, but what of
> others?
If you are interested to port an new OS on Xen, I would suggest to read [1].

> The available examples seem geared towards Linux DomUs.  I'm looking at a
> FreeBSD installation image and it appears to expect an EFI firmware.
> Beyond having a bunch of files appearing oriented towards booting on EFI
> I can't say much about (booting) FreeBSD/ARM DomUs.
I wrote PoC a few years ago to boot FreeBSD on Xen on Arm (see [2]). I 
haven't touched it for quite a while, so you may need to use a different 
branch in that tree.
Cheers,

[1] 
https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/Porting%20FreeBSD%20on%20Xen%20on%20ARM%20.pdf
[2] 
https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/julieng/freebsd.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev-arm64
>
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Julien Grall