Hi Prabhakar, hi Chris,

ok, now I understand your question last Thursday, Chris... ;)

On 02.05.22 21:37, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 5:13 PM Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 27.04.22 15:19, Prabhakar Lad wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I recently tried to build the v0.12 tag with the upstream kernel
>>> (v5.18-rc4) for emconrzg1h, but the build failed due to api changes
>>> (cpu_up/cpu_down mainly).
>>
>> You want to use master or even next for very recent kernels. I haven't
>> done a release in a too-long-while, so patches to account for kernel
>> changes can only be found there.
>>
> I see. I came across the linux [0] tree which has
> jailhouse-enabling/x.x branches. Is this a good starting point for
> Linux? These branches merge Linux releases into the jailhouse kernel
> which makes it a bit difficult to track the changes specifically made
> to jailhouse. For example, for the 4.19 branch it's currently on
> v4.19.81 whereas I plan to work on 4.19.198 which makes porting things
> a bit difficult.

Not at all:

git log --no-merges --oneline v4.19.81..jailhouse-enabling/4.19

The 4.19 branch was retired a while ago, so rebasing over latest stable
or merging that in would definitely be recommended. Actually, you likely
want to check the latest enabling branch or [1] for updates since 4.19
was retired.

> 
>>>
>>> So I wanted to check what are the strict requirements for Linux and
>>> u-boot as I plan to add new arm64 platform.
>>>
>>> Also is there any document/link that I can refer to porting on new platform?
>>
>> No written documents, but if you follow the commit history of
>> https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse-images you can see how new targets
>> were hooked up there (mostly Jailhouse-unrelated integration work).
>> Jailhouse also does not depend on U-Boot, first of all only a working
>> Linux / firmware integration, ideally from upstream.
>>
> I see the tf-a and u-boot do point to upstream with some tiny patches.
> For example, for xilinx SDEI is enabled in TF-A. Is this required?
> (I'm still reading through the docs so this nooby question!)

SDEI is an optimization for interrupt delivery. Not needed, just faster.

> 
>> Which SoC are you targeting?
>>
> My plan is to start with the Renesas RZ/V2L SoC (cortex a55 with
> gic-v3), but will soon switch over to the Renesas RZ/G2M SoC (cortex
> a57 with gic-400).
>

I see.

The key steps in enabling will be
 - getting the patches applied to a tree that supports your board
 - writing a simple config (there is no "config create" on ARM, but you
   can more easily start with passing everything through)
 - jailhhouse config check
 - debugging remaining violations when starting Jailhouse
 - writing/adjusting non-root cell configs (for the pattern of recent
   enablings)

Jan

[1]
https://git.kiszka.org/?p=linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/queues/jailhouse

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