Xen for Apple Silicon (M1 and beyond)

[Techguru <techguru@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Stefano, on IRC, suggested that I start a discussion on this mailing list regarding my intention to bring up a fully function XEN on Apple Silicon (M1 and beyond).

I am in the process of getting up to speed on your governance policies, applied for Coverity access to use some of the known issues there as training wheels, and putting my gitlab fork into good working order with CI.

I would rather not duplicate effort which has already been proposed, so definitely open to any pointers, any requests for how to chunk things into smaller patches, any requests for particular ordering/sequencing of patch sets.

Some obvious areas:   16k pages; device trees; interrupts; power management; any essential device drivers.