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Re: [Xen-devel] Enable virtual memory for Mini-os on ARM



On Dec 24, 2013, at 0:01, Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On lun, 2013-12-23 at 10:23 +0000, karim.allah.ahmed@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
> Hello!
> 
>> I'm currently working on porting mini-os to ARM.
>> 
> Cool... What's your usecase for that (I'm nosy, I know :-P)
> 
>> The work I've done so far was related:
>> 
>> * Changes to build system to build mini-os as zImage
>> 
>> * adding a linker script for arm target
>> 
>> * Splitting some source files between common and arch specific bits
>> 
>> * adding some hypercalls for arm ( mainly used at the moment for
>> console_io and getting shared_info page ).
>> 
>> * some assembly code for early startup ( stack setup, mmu stuff etc )
>> before jumping to c code.
>> 
>> * , etc
>> 
>> Now, it compiles and boots ( as zImage ). 
>> 
> Cool... If I can ask, do you have the code somewhere publicly
> accessible?
> 
> I appreciate what you said about this being still deeply experimental,
> but it's something really interesting, and there may be people
> interested in seeing/collaborating! :-)

+1

I’ve tried to build a basic framework to port mini-os on ARM this summer,
but stopped to fix my dev-board problem then. Looking forward to it.

Regards,

Baozi

> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dario
> 
> -- 
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> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
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