From: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
To: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <Oleksandr_Andrushchenko@epam.com>
Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
Roman Shaposhnik <roman@zededa.com>,
Nataliya Korovkina <malus.brandywine@gmail.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: UEFI support in ARM DomUs
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 08:31:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2006040829390.6774@sstabellini-ThinkPad-T480s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3856c1f-52bf-92fd-5226-4b09229e2127@epam.com>
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> On 6/4/20 4:57 AM, Peng Fan wrote:
> > Grall <julien@xen.org>;
> >> Nataliya Korovkina <malus.brandywine@gmail.com>
> >> Subject: UEFI support in ARM DomUs
> > We have made U-Boot run inside XEN DomU, but just only PV console part,
> > not implement other frontend drivers currently. Would this help for your
> > case if enable EFI in U-Boot?
>
> Well, we have a working PV block implementation on top of that on iMX8
>
> platform, mostly ported from mini-os. Currently we are finalizing the work
>
> and cleaning up (it's going to take a week or so hopefully). Then, we we'll post
>
> it on our public github. We are also thinking about upstreaming the work, but it may
>
> take quite some time if the whole idea fits u-boot's view on such an extension at all.
Yes please to both of you! :-)
In the meantime, while we wait for those changes to go upstream in
uboot, could you please post a branch on github and a link on this email
thread?
Maybe we should have a wikipage on wiki.xenproject.org about
work-in-progress uboot items.
> > Regards,
> > Peng.
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> with a lot of help from Stefano, we're getting RPi4 support in Project EVE
> >> pretty much on par between KVM and Xen.
> >>
> >> One big area that still remains is supporting UEFI boot sequence for DomUs.
> >> With KVM, given the qemu virt device model this is as simple as using either
> >> stock UEFI build for arm or even U-Boot EFI emulation environment and
> >> passing it via -bios option.
> >>
> >> Obviously with Xen on ARM we don't have the device model so my
> >> understanding is that the easiest way we can support it would be to port
> >> UEFI's OvmfPkg/OvmfXen target to ARM (it seems to be currently exclusively
> >> X64).
> >>
> >> So here's my first question: if there's anybody on this list who had a hand in
> >> implementing OvmfPkg/OvmfXen can you please share your thoughts on how
> >> much work that port may be (or whether it is even feasible -- I may totally be
> >> missing something really obvious here).
> >>
> >> And as long as I've got your attention: two more questions:
> >> 1.. compared to the above, would porting pvgrub to ARM be any
> >> easier or more difficult?
> >>
> >> 2. same question for teaching u-boot about PV calls.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Roman.
> >>
> >> P.S. Oh and I guess between:
> >> 0. OvmfPkg/OvmfXen on ARM64
> >> 1. pvgrub on ARM64
> >> 2. u-boot/EFI emulation with PV calls backend I didn't miss any other
> >> obvious way of making UEFI-aware VM images to boot on Xen ARM64 DomU,
> >> right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-04 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-31 22:05 UEFI support in ARM DomUs Roman Shaposhnik
2020-05-31 22:24 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-01 4:11 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2020-06-01 16:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-06-02 22:50 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2020-06-04 16:58 ` George Dunlap
2020-06-03 10:16 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-04 1:57 ` Peng Fan
2020-06-04 15:26 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-04 15:31 ` Stefano Stabellini [this message]
2020-06-04 16:50 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2020-06-15 1:58 ` Peng Fan
2020-06-18 5:22 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-18 14:50 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-18 22:00 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-06-18 22:49 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-19 12:32 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-19 12:47 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-19 12:51 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-19 12:59 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-19 13:06 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-19 13:15 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-19 13:29 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-22 13:56 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-22 14:23 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-19 13:16 ` Peng Fan
2020-06-19 13:31 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-19 20:02 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-06-22 14:04 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-22 14:27 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-22 14:33 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-22 17:49 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-23 1:20 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-06-23 5:31 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-24 6:14 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-24 7:07 ` Peng Fan
2020-06-24 7:17 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-24 7:26 ` Peng Fan
2020-06-24 7:38 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-24 17:05 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-06-24 19:31 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-24 19:47 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-06-19 7:04 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2020-06-04 15:38 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-04 16:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-06-04 16:34 ` Julien Grall
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