From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Questions about XEN/ARM toolchain, XEN 4.5, Exynos 5420 and Arndale Octaboard. Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:26:47 +0000 Message-ID: <1425896807.21353.4.camel@citrix.com> References: <1425571646.25940.250.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Fabio Canigliula Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org (I'm putting the list back since I think the below may be of more general interest) On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 12:19 +0100, Fabio Canigliula wrote: > >> Could you suggest me some boards based on ARMv7 (A7 and/or A15) or > >> ARMv8 fully controllable and on which Xen 4.5 works? Any help would be > >> greatly appreciated. > > > > My preferred option is the Cubietruck (AKA cubieboard 3). > > I am very thankful for your suggestion. It is indeed a very > interesting board with open source hardware and with an active > community. BTW there are also various Allwinner based platforms which are fully Open Source HW (i.e schematics, layouts etc). linux-sunxi.org has pages for a variety of then. The various Olimex boards are the main example. I've not tried on myself but IMHO anything with an A20 (sun7i) processor (same a Cubietruck) should work with Xen OK. I don't think we've tried anything other sunxi, but I'd expect anything with a Cortex-A7 or -A15 to work OK, although none of the newer ones seem to have onboard SATA which is a bit sad. The older Cortex-A8 based stuff won't work with Xen (no virt extensions). Ian.