From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Bader Subject: Re: Stuck trying to boot Xen 4.3 on Arm Midway Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:59:43 +0100 Message-ID: <529CE6AF.2070704@canonical.com> References: <529CA055.80402@canonical.com> <1385997874.16012.8.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> <529CAAA5.5030308@canonical.com> <1385999562.16012.14.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4372106850230720524==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1385999562.16012.14.camel@kazak.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: Stefano Stabellini , Paolo Pisati , Xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --===============4372106850230720524== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OxvTLEbXPxgwVTRJExkO4KlhPPkXK8INO" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --OxvTLEbXPxgwVTRJExkO4KlhPPkXK8INO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02.12.2013 16:52, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 16:43 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote: >> On 02.12.2013 16:24, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 15:59 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote: >>>> I am trying to extract and combine the various pieces of information= found in >>>> [1] and its sub-pages and the Xen in-tree documentation in order to = make xen >>>> boot (potentially non-smp without some later changes). But since I a= m not >>>> familiar enough with Arm I think I am stuck doing something wrong. >>>> >>>> I compiled the hypervisor with debug and early printk for midway and= use the >>>> xen.bin file (I could get no output at all when trying to create a u= boot image >>>> with mkimage from the uncompressed xen.gz). >>> >>> What version are you using? xen.bin went away in July, the right file= is >>> now just "xen". >> >> The released version of xen 4.3. At some point I might update to 4.3.1= (or >> whatever stable is current then). This probably implies picking some a= dditional >> patches when I want to get it running on Midway. >=20 > Xen 4.3 for ARM was a tech preview. I believe at the time it ran on > Model and versatile express. Getting it running on anything else is > going to be a big job I'm afraid. I'd suggest either waiting for 4.4 or= > using current tip in the meantime. >=20 >> The xen.bin would not be >> packaged right now but it had the right format to be used by bootz whi= le xen.gz >> (or xen after unpacking) would not be usable in uboot without converti= ng and >> that need some more address values which I could and likely do get wro= ng. >=20 > In 4.3 xen.bin was the correct zImage compatible thing. I'm not sure > what you mean about the address values, but as I say if you are > expecting it to work on midway easily you are going to be disappointed.= Not really expecting _anything_ to work easily these days. :) What I mean= t there was that you have to specify base address and start offset in the mkimage= call and I used the 0x8000000 (give or take a zero I am typing from memory) th= at was used in the xen build to convert from xen-bin into xen for both. >=20 >=20 >> Thanks, I will look through that later. One thin I noted is the dtb se= tup. >> Examples out there often vary in having a modules sub-leaf or not. I w= ould think >> that from the early printk I am at least right to use the deeper nesti= ng. At >> least consistent with the in-source doc at that time/ release. >=20 > I can't remember what 4.3 did, but at least these days the depth is not= > that important, it's the compatabile string and presence beneath /chose= n > which matter. Ok, sounds like I can abandon all hope for 4.3 anyway. But good to know t= hat. Just a bit confusing. -Stefan >=20 > Ian. >=20 >=20 --OxvTLEbXPxgwVTRJExkO4KlhPPkXK8INO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJSnOavAAoJEOhnXe7L7s6jSRsP/2tL+gUR7X/dKwzhzNhRsGBP RCkzJ7Vlnhkm0NbKRnE9xUwtmzey3dnLGFBkVBafju24cr4diC+8SeEv9F1stzDE y08f0LIh0shP8XFfDA388NTBOqrCC0PO5QZ8jv7YY5Z7XZlg6/EdXLJw/fYLIhmo esm5eePKHY7/KCEE4W3M4oLK8dZgEQsT8rJwh+AKWw5s4ksJdG4ynDvbp+lYBqgh VQzDHW+HLiSJ8Rktw9ijN+DUcnF63DsaSibu2z0CB7X5cCv27TGG713rBwbRoB9E /1DqR5cioTAt7CuOS1nrBfaYiTEDOJifkAr+tjswEcU/CBXomiNDLMVEt8WLZFBk WbqQTa22A7AoY1t5M+X9CQfEaPvAuN520Wnkea1p2FLu52JZzXlsE6cYJ1Z+L84H dT/qMlp6a38xvNvGM7kTP9/3xruci7+6X74ngs7yuD5hEf0L9Fzr/ffk2tePRr0/ tdEzbRyGXM658hUqHEKo5cOOFM5Qfl4yy3RprGGsjJmy5fQkk+z7dGuMmVF7M6tE 9RIr06qfCACHLHpADvx2jU8bM7zBMgHY3WX58UpQos7WojH0xHxkdp0nEG0DqeG4 sL0q37EgaNb98j5q5tY6LfAcpQV7CsiEvJAq120mtmtKv0xcJkTibx25JuUn90PS 0vchOXISlZaV9+QHveHs =tffI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OxvTLEbXPxgwVTRJExkO4KlhPPkXK8INO-- --===============4372106850230720524== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============4372106850230720524==--