Re: [RFC XEN PATCH 00/23] xen: beginning support for RISC-V

[Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:16:10PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:10:17AM +0000, Alistair Francis wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 18:03 -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > Any updates? I am looking forward to this :-)
> > > 
> > 
> > It has been on a slow burn since I became a new dad (shortly after the RFC).
> > I've gradually regained free time, and so I've been able to change that
> > slow burn to a moderate burn in the last couple weeks.
> > 
> > Most of my progress has been around build environment improvements.  I've 
> > done
> > some work stripping it down to the bare minimum required to build a new arch
> > and rooting the commit history from there, and some work with incorporating 
> > it
> > into the gitlab CI, containerizing the build and QEMU run, etc...
> > 
> > As far as hypervisor status:  I'm just about done with incorporating the 
> > boot
> > module FDT parsing code, extracting kernel info and ram regions
> > (taken/generalized from arch/arm), plus implementing the arch-specific 
> > pieces
> > of domain_create().
> > 
> > On the verge of being able to dive into a guest kernel and see what breaks
> > first :)
> > 
> > I'm expected to commit an extra day or two per week in the next month or so 
> > at
> > Vates, so this will considerably bump up my cadence in comparison to the 
> > last
> > few months.
> 
> Great to hear and congratulations! I'll stay tuned. Next time I'll try
> to rebuild and run your series on QEMU, I might ask you for some help
> with the setup.
> 

Thanks!  And absolutely, feel free :)