[Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Xen port to Cortex-A15 / ARMv7 with virt extensions

[david.vrabel@citrix.com (David Vrabel)]

On 30/11/11 14:11, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 30 November 2011 11:39, Stefano Stabellini
> <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> A git branch is available here (not ready for submission):
>>
>> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git arm
>>
>> the branch above is based on git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6.git arm-lpae,
>> even though guests don't really need lpae support to run on Xen.
> 
> Indeed, you don't really need LPAE. What you may need though is
> generic timers support for A15, it would allow less Hypervisor traps.
> For up-to-date architecture patches (well, development tree, not
> guaranteed to be stable), I would recommend this (they get into
> mainline at some point):
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-arm-arch.git;a=summary
> 
> Either use master or just cherry-pick the branches that you are interested in.

Hi Catalin,

Which branches are required for the Versatile Express with the
Cortex-A15? I merged linux-arm-arch/arm-arch/vexpress in but I get a
instruction fault immediately after branching to __mmap_switched.

Is it not setting up the MMU correctly?

David