On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 3:55 PM Stewart Hildebrand
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> + Corey
>
> On Friday, June 5, 2020 3:19 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 3:12 PM Stewart Hildebrand wrote:
> >> On Thursday, June 4, 2020 5:13 PM, Christopher Clark wrote:
> >> > Hello Siddhartha,
> >> >
> >> > I am also interested in running Xen on the Raspberry Pi 4. I hope to 
> >> > have time next week to be able to look into it.
> >> >
> >> > Christopher
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> On Jun 4, 2020, at 5:05 AM, Siddhartha V wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello dear meta-virtualization team,
> >> >> I am building the xen minimal image using yocto warrior ("bitbake 
> >> >> xen-image-minimal") by giving the target machine as
> >"raspberrypi4".
> >>
> >> Corey Minyard created a layer for Xen on Raspberry Pi 4 here 
> >> https://github.com/MontaVista-OpenSourceTechnology/meta-
> >raspberrypi-xen
> >>
> >
> >Someone needs to lean on them to get patches submitted to meta-virt.
>
> Corey: you are hereby encouraged to submit patches to meta-virtualization.

I'm sure they aren't all appropriate, but perhaps some are. I didn't
check out the layer in any detail or form an opinion on what does or
doesn't make sense. Heck, maybe none of them are appropriate or
general enough for meta-virt.

>
> >Having a layer like that, with fixes missing from meta-virt, makes no sense.
> >
> >Bruce
>
> meta-virtualization seems to be using Xen 4.12 at the moment.
>
> Corey's meta-raspberrypi-xen layer uses Xen 4.13. The Xen patches are based 
> on Xen 4.13. Between Xen 4.12 and 4.13 there are a few additional patches 
> that are required for running on Raspberry Pi 4.
>
> Would you rather uprev meta-virtualization to Xen 4.13, or backport the 
> patches and identify additional backports required for running Xen 4.12 on 
> Raspberry Pi 4?

If someone is going to the trouble of uprev'ing Xen in other layers
rather than meta-virt, we are happy to take the uprev's in the main
layer.

Bruce

>
> Stew
> 



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