2014/1/10 Ian Campbell <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 13:03 +0400, Held Bier wrote: >> Ian, >> >> 2014/1/10 Ian Campbell <[email protected]>: >> > On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 10:57 +0400, Held Bier wrote: >> >> Marcin, >> >> >> >> > But you get working virtualisation with proper U-Boot. >> >> >> >> Yes, it's a must for KVM, but Xen for Chromebook still has a secure >> >> mode escape hack in it's tree, and hence, can be booted from stock >> >> U-boot. >> > >> > This escape hack was removed from Xen mainline months ago -- are you >> > using some old version? >> >> Yes, it was. But i meant an old people/aperard/xen-arm -b >> chromebook-2013-03-22 which "Xen ARM with Virtualization >> Extensions/Chromebook" page at Xen's wiki refers on. >> >> > >> > I would strongly recommend that if you want to try to get Xen onto a >> > Chromebook that you use the latest Xen mainline along with a suitably >> > virtualisation enabled U-boot. There have been numerous improvements to >> > the platform support and hardware compatibility side of things since >> > that hack existed. >> >> Indeed, there is a progress going on ARM platform support in general, >> but Chromebook isn't an official Xen port, right? > > It's not in the mainline tree yet, if that's what you mean. If someone > can get it into a state where it is working then we'd be happy to take > the patches. (Although we are frozen for the 4.4 release so they would > either need to be restricted to chromeos specific code or wait for 4.5 > development to open in a month or so) > >> From Stefano >> [http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-arm/2013-09/msg00001.html]: >> "we didn't make any more progress on the Chromebook port so the page >> above >> [http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions/Chromebook] >> is the most recent information we have on it." >> And this page points to aperard's repos for both xen and kernel, so >> either wiki's page isn't updated, or the work on Chromebook hadn't >> been merged into Xen mainline. > > Right. That wiki page is misleading -- the chromebook stuff was a WIP > development effort which was never brought to the point of fully working > before it stalled. > > Anthony -- please can you update the wiki page please with whatever the > best current advice is, whether that is "take this branch and rebase it > onto something more recent" or "this obsolete branch exists but doesn't > work, best advice is to start over with something newer" or whatever. > > Held -- as you are probably gathering you are going to have to do some > development work if you want to run Xen on your chromebook at this > stage. We are happy to provide guidance (probably best to take this > upstream) but it is going to need a certain amount of lowlevel hacking > skills -- especially given the lack of serial console on the chromebook > (unless you have soldered one on). > > Ian. > >
Hmm, i've just read somewhere that Xen on Chromebook was demonstrated on some conference, so i thought that it works, at least primordially. I suppose that information was wrong then. Anyway... Ian, thanks much for bringing the correct info! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANoehN9Z82_kUQqp_V1uKMt+HZMcueUaCw-M=o+unk2bpeh...@mail.gmail.com
