Re: [XenARM] State of PV Xen on ARM

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 11:35:40AM +0530, Krishna Pavan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > How about an ARMv6 like the arm1176jzf-s in the Raspberry Pi?
> 
> Or ARMv7 like an Pengpod or Cubbieboard (Allwinner A10 - sunxi)?
> 
> 
> You might be aware of the Virtualization Extensions, available for
> selective boards.
> 
> They are not available for all the boards/chipsets. You may have to write
> them on your own, if you want to use those boards.
> 
> Boards with ARMv7a do not have hardware VE support, that's all I know.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Goswin von Brederlow 
> <goswin-v-b@xxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 08:36:08PM +0530, Krishna Pavan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Even I am interested with the same.
> > >
> > > As far as I know, PV on Xen-ARM for Cortex-A8 is available for testing on
> > > ARM Fast Model Emulators.
> > >
> > > But It has been months since we heard any news about it.
> > >
> > > PV on Xen-ARM for Cortex-A9 is already available for Tegra 2 Harmony.
> > >
> > > Even I would like to learn and get some answers from you guys, to the
> > > questions posted by Simon Sturm.
> >
> > How about an ARMv6 like the arm1176jzf-s in the Raspberry Pi?
> > Or ARMv7 like an Pengpod or Cubbieboard (Allwinner A10 - sunxi)?
> >
> > And what git repository would be the best to try?
> >
> > MfG
> >         Goswin
> >
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We were asking about paravirtualized xen which wouldn't need any
hardware virtualization.

Or do you mean writing the drivers to support uart, SD card and
framebuffer and such?

MfG
        Goswin

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