From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: [RFC 00/29] Support multiple ARM platforms in Xen Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:45:25 +0100 Message-ID: <517E6B65.3070607@linaro.org> References: <1367230647.3142.264.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1367230647.3142.264.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Anthony Perard , George Dunlap , "patches@linaro.org" , Stefano Stabellini , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 04/29/2013 11:17 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > CCing George, Xen 4.3 release manager. > > On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 00:01 +0100, Julien Grall wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This patch series is divided in 4 parts: >> - Patch 1-6: Minor bug fixes >> - Patch 7-10: Add hierarchical device tree support based on linux tree >> - Patch 11-24: Remove harcoded part >> - Patch 25-28: Arndale support based on Anthony's git >> >> Xen can boot on both Arndale Board and the Versatile Express without >> recompilation. But there is still some hardcoded part, mainly in assembly. > > I haven't reviewed this yet but I think this is something we are going > to want for the Xen 4.3 release if at all possible. (NB, for Linaro > chaps, we are past feature and code freeze and are intending to release > 4.3-rc1 next Monday, but there is scope for freeze exceptions to be > argued for) > > Arndale is currently the only widely available/reasonably priced > development platform which can run Xen and therefore IMHO Xen 4.3 needs > to be able to run on it if it is to be a useful "tech preview" platform. > > The current xen.git tree runs on the vexpress platform (rather > expensive) with the TC2 chip (difficult if not impossible for random > developers to get hold of) and the software models (random developers > can get an eval license for these, but they don't last very long). IMHO > the priority order of the platforms for 4.3 is, in decreasing order: > Arndale > Fast Models > Vexpress > (with vexpress there running a pretty distant third) I have only checked this tree on the Arndale and Fast Models Arm 32. Julien