Re: ARM - Successful install on RockPro64

[Richard Simpson <xen@huskydog.org.uk>]

Dear Bertrand,

Just to confirm that the Linux distro is Gentoo.  I know it's not very 
common these days, but I have used it for very many years and it is what 
I am used to.

Gentoo has a xen package but only for arm32 and then masked as unstable 
so I just grabbed 4.13 via git.  It also has a xen-tools package which 
is packaged for arm64 (although still masked as unstable) so I unmasked 
and used that.  There were a couple of dependency problems with the 
package but after I resolved those it seemed to work OK.

There is also a Gentoo u-boot tools package for arm64 but again I got 
u-boot via git.

I would be happy to try to report my success via the smoke test page 
(https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test/Results) if 
I can figure out how.  Strangely, I can't see anything listed under 
"Test Results" from anyone else.  Perhaps it is a problem with my browser.

I also notice an instruction which reads "Test hypervisor 
functionalities: clone raisin on the platform and run ./raise test".  I 
can try to do this if it will help.  Do I just run "git clone <link from 
web page>" and then presumably the test prints out some results?

Happy to try a beta version of Xen if you decide to include the patch 
and I can also try some of the interrupt config options if you want.

Cheers,

     Richard

On 6/16/20 9:03 AM, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> + Julien and Stefano
>
>> On 15 Jun 2020, at 23:29, Richard Simpson <xen@huskydog.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Just to report that I have successfully installed Xen on a Pine RockPro64 ARM SBC.
> Very nice :-)
>
>> I am using Xen 4.13 booting directly from u-boot on an SD card and my dom0 distribution is Gentoo.
>>
>> I haven't tried to create a domU yet and I am doing everything via the serial console so I can't say anything about the graphics.
>>
>> My biggest hurdle (apart from understanding u-boot) was needing to apply the vgic-v3: fix GICD_ISACTIVER patch.
> What version of Linux are you running ?
> I added Julien and Stefano so that we reactivate the discussion on this patch.
>
>> I will be happy to provide more details when I have got a bit further, but after two weeks of effort I was so delighted to finally be able to log into dom0 that I thought I'd better let somebody know.
> Thanks a lot for the notice, and congrats again :-)
>
> Cheers
> Bertrand
>