Re: ARM - Successful install on RockPro64

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 16/06/2020 09:03, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> + Julien and Stefano
>
> > On 15 Jun 2020, at 23:29, Richard Simpson <xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Just to report that I have successfully installed Xen on a Pine RockPro64 ARM 
> > SBC.
> Very nice :-)
>
> > I am using Xen 4.13 booting directly from u-boot on an SD card and my dom0 
> > distribution is Gentoo.
> >
> > I haven't tried to create a domU yet and I am doing everything via the serial 
> > console so I can't say anything about the graphics.
> >
> > My biggest hurdle (apart from understanding u-boot) was needing to apply the 
> > vgic-v3: fix GICD_ISACTIVER patch.
> What version of Linux are you running ?
> I added Julien and Stefano so that we reactivate the discussion on this patch.
A temporary patch to mark the register RAZ has been merged a couple of 
months ago. See 0796cb907f2c "xen/arm: vgic-v3: fix GICD_ISACTIVER 
range". This should probably be backported to Xen 4.13 and 4.12.
Although, I haven't seen any update for a proper fix yet.

Cheers,

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Julien Grall