On 07/05/2013 05:07 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:59:28AM -0500, Jon wrote: >> I'm pleased to announce the availability of Fedora 19 for the 2012 Samsung >> Chromebook featuring ARM Exynos dual core A15 processor. > > Sorry to slightly hijack this thread. I will try your remix later. > > Reading the comments on https://lwn.net/Articles/557132/#Comments > it seems as if the news on KVM on the Chromebook is not good. It > doesn't boot into HYP mode, and there's no way to make it boot into > HYP mode, so KVM won't be supported. Is that right?
That's roughly what I'd expect to be the case. There might be a signed U-Boot someone has hacked that does enable HYP mode, but otherwise I suspect you're out of luck. I'll ask around during Linaro Connect. Note that this is also specifically why I had the UEFI binding for ARMv8 modified (a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away) such that we *always* mandate that the OS be entered at the EL2 exception level (not privilege level in ARMv8 - different), and that we have a standard way to install a Hypervisor. Unfortunately, on 32-bit systems, you need to rely upon a magic SMC or similar to do it, and we can't rely on that being available, or standardized yet. Bottom line is this goes away. Jon. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
