From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: julien@xen.org, andre.przywara@arm.com,
stefano.stabellini@linaro.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
stratos-dev@op-lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Xen guest loader (to boot Xen+Kernel under TCG)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:09:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2fc9tsw.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210211171945.18313-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> These patches have been sitting around as part of a larger series to
> improve the support of Xen on AArch64. The second part of the work is
> currently awaiting other re-factoring and build work to go in to make
> the building of a pure-Xen capable QEMU easier. As that might take
> some time and these patches are essentially ready I thought I'd best
> push for merging them.
>
> There are no fundamental changes since the last revision. I've
> addressed most of the comments although I haven't expanded the use of
> the global *fdt to other device models. I figured that work could be
> done as and when models have support for type-1 hypervisors.
>
> I have added some documentation to describe the feature and added an
> acceptance tests which checks the various versions of Xen can boot.
> The only minor wrinkle is using a custom compiled Linux kernel due to
> missing support in the distro kernels. If anyone can suggest a distro
> which is currently well supported for Xen on AArch64 I can update the
> test.
>
> The following patches still need review:
>
> - tests/avocado: add boot_xen tests
> - docs: add some documentation for the guest-loader
> - docs: move generic-loader documentation into the main manual
> - hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static hypervisor guests
>
> Alex Bennée (7):
> hw/board: promote fdt from ARM VirtMachineState to MachineState
> hw/riscv: migrate fdt field to generic MachineState
> device_tree: add qemu_fdt_setprop_string_array helper
> hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static hypervisor
> guests
Gentle ping. They all have reviews apart from the core bit of loader
code and I'd like to merge this cycle ;-)
--
Alex Bennée
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-25 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 17:19 [PATCH v2 0/7] Xen guest loader (to boot Xen+Kernel under TCG) Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] hw/board: promote fdt from ARM VirtMachineState to MachineState Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 17:40 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] hw/riscv: migrate fdt field to generic MachineState Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] device_tree: add qemu_fdt_setprop_string_array helper Alex Bennée
2021-02-17 0:44 ` David Gibson
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static hypervisor guests Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] docs: move generic-loader documentation into the main manual Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 21:38 ` Alistair Francis
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] docs: add some documentation for the guest-loader Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 21:39 ` Alistair Francis
2021-02-11 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] tests/avocado: add boot_xen tests Alex Bennée
2021-02-17 14:31 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-17 20:46 ` Cleber Rosa
2021-02-17 22:22 ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-18 15:15 ` Cleber Rosa
2021-02-18 9:43 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-18 15:22 ` Cleber Rosa
2021-02-25 13:09 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
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