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

Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-30T14:20:51Z

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, 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.

Thanks, I'll rebase on that.