Re: [RFC XEN PATCH 00/23] xen: beginning support for RISC-V

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:10:17AM +0000, Alistair Francis wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 18:03 -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > Any updates? I am looking forward to this :-)
> > 
> 
> It has been on a slow burn since I became a new dad (shortly after the RFC).
> I've gradually regained free time, and so I've been able to change that
> slow burn to a moderate burn in the last couple weeks.
> 
> Most of my progress has been around build environment improvements.  I've done
> some work stripping it down to the bare minimum required to build a new arch
> and rooting the commit history from there, and some work with incorporating it
> into the gitlab CI, containerizing the build and QEMU run, etc...
> 
> As far as hypervisor status:  I'm just about done with incorporating the boot
> module FDT parsing code, extracting kernel info and ram regions
> (taken/generalized from arch/arm), plus implementing the arch-specific pieces
> of domain_create().
> 
> On the verge of being able to dive into a guest kernel and see what breaks
> first :)
> 
> I'm expected to commit an extra day or two per week in the next month or so at
> Vates, so this will considerably bump up my cadence in comparison to the last
> few months.

Great to hear and congratulations! I'll stay tuned. Next time I'll try
to rebuild and run your series on QEMU, I might ask you for some help
with the setup.


> > FYI, I would like to talk more about RISC-V Xen at the Xen Virtual
> > summit. I'll put it forward as a BoF subject.
> > 
> > I haven't worked on this, although the RISC-V Hypervisor spec is
> > progressing towards ratification.
> > 
> > Alistair
> > 
> 
> That would be great :)

Indeed!