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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/N] xen: arm: rework early bring up



Adding Andre,

On 09/17/2013 02:37 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
Hi,

Hi,

The following reworks early bring up on ARM to use a separate set of
boot pagetables. This simplifies things by avoiding the need to bring up
all CPUs in lock step, which in turn allows us to do secondary CPU
bringup in C code.

Great ! I will give a try on different boards and see what happens.

Unfortunately the main bulk of this change is a single large patch which
is hard to decompose any further since it is basically pulling on the
thread and then knitting a new jumper from it.

I think you can split the patch in:
  - Add the new platform callback
  - Fast model SMP code
  - ...

We will have dead code for "few" commit in Xen, but it will be easier to read the patch series :).

With these changes Xen now absolutely requires that the bootloader calls
the hypervisor in HYP mode, the previous workarounds have been removed.
For use on models a bootwrapper is now required. See
         git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/boot-wrapper.git xen-arm32
         git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/boot-wrapper-aarch64.git xen-arm64

I have implemented support for CPU bringup on the fastmodel vexpress
platforms (v7and v8) here, I suppose it should work OK on a real
vexpress too but I've not tried it.

Unfortunately on the versatile express there is 2 different ways to bring up CPUs. We can stick to this CPU bring up, as long as we ask the user to modify the board configuration.

I'm hoping that those of you with access to other platforms will
implement the required cpu_up platform hook, it should be pretty simple
in each case, I think.

It should now also be possible to implement PSCI, but I have not done
so.

Ian


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