Re: [RFC v2] Add support for Xen ARM guest on FreeBSD

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>]

Hello Andrew,

On 28/11/2014 13:57, Andrew Turner wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:35:36 +0000
> Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Major changes in this new version:
>>    	* Add Device Tree support via Linux Boot ABI
>> 	* Add zImage support
>> 	* Netfront support
>> 	* Blkfront fixes
>> 	* DOM0 support (separate branch see below)
>>
>> The former item is very hackish. I was wondering if there is another
>> way to do it? Or maybe we should support FreeBSD Bootloader in ARM
>> guest?
>
> I think using the loader is the correct way to handle booting in Xen. It
> allows us to relocate the dtb as required. It look like a zImage then
> use the Xen console to interact with the user.

Thanks, I will give a look to this solution.

>>
>> The patch series is divided in X parts:
>> 	* #1 - #14: Clean up and bug fixes for Xen. They can be
>> applied without the rest of the series
>>           * #15 - #19: Update Xen interface to 4.4 and fix
>> compilation. It's required for ARM.
>>           * #20 - #26: Update Xen code to support ARM
>>           * #27 - #33: Rework the event channel code for supporting
>> ARM. I will work with Royger to come with a common interface with x86
>>           * #34 - #36: Add support for ARM in Xen code
>>           * #37 - #46: ARM bug fixes and new features. Some of thoses
>> patches (#37 - #40) could be applied without the rest of the series
>>           * #47 - #48: Add Xen ARM platform
>
> I have committed patches 30 and 40 as they look good.

Thanks!

> I'm not familiar
> with the code to review 37 or 38, however from my quick look at 38 I
> appears _bus_dmamap_load_buffer does take in to account buflen and
> dmat->maxsegsz when setting sgsize just not dmat->alignment.

Right, I guess I could just keep the roundup2.

>
> ...
>>
>> TODO:
>> 	* Add SMP/PSCI support in FreeBSD. Could be useful other
>> platform too
>
> Adding PSCI support is on my TODO lost for arm64, however I don't
> expect to get on ti in until early next year.

BTW, what is the actual status of the ARM64 port? I plan to give a look
for adding Xen support too.

Regards,


-- 
Julien Grall