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RE: Trying to boot xen on Raspberry-pi 3 B+


  • To: Ayan Kumar Halder <ayan.halder.arm@xxxxxxxxx>, "julien.grall.oss@xxxxxxxxx" <julien.grall.oss@xxxxxxxxx>, Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>, "Volodymyr_Babchuk@xxxxxxxx" <Volodymyr_Babchuk@xxxxxxxx>, "sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx" <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: Trying to boot xen on Raspberry-pi 3 B+

Hi Ayan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xen-devel <xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Ayan
> Kumar Halder
> Sent: 2021年12月28日 21:19
> To: julien.grall.oss@xxxxxxxxx; Bertrand Marquis
> <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>; Volodymyr_Babchuk@xxxxxxxx;
> sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Trying to boot xen on Raspberry-pi 3 B+
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to boot xen on Raspberry-pi 3 B+ as my hobby project to
> learn about Xen.
> 
> I used the latest version of xen
> (f1e268b9fd13647e1f69c8ce0ae7be401d319fc8).  I tried using
> tiny64_defconfig and built xen-4.17-unstable. Also I enabled printk and
> set 0x7e215040 as the early printk physical base address (0x7e215040).
> 
> Then, I just tried to load xen and dtb (the same which has worked fine
> for linux). However, there is no prints after "Starting kernel ...".
> 
> 1. Do you know if there is something I am missing ? I am expecting to
> see the Xen earlyprintk logs.
> 
> 2. Is raspberry 3 B+ expected to work with Xen ? I was reading
> https://www.linux.com/featured/xen-on-raspberry-pi-4-adventures/ and is
> my understanding correct that only Pi 4 is supported ?
> 

It seems raspberries 3 B+ doesn't have GIC interrupt controller.
If yes, I think you can't make Xen work properly on raspberries 3 B+.
Because Xen only supports GIC for Arm architectures.

> Kind regards,
> 
> Ayan
> 


 


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