Thanks for your suggestions. I think I'll try XEN-41. Best Regards, Zhongze Liu.
2017-03-04 3:25 GMT+08:00 Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org <javascript:;>>: > On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Sky Liu wrote: >> 2017-03-02 3:36 GMT+08:00 Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org <javascript:;>>: >> > >> > Thank you for your interest in this project and Xen! >> > >> > Firstly, I would recommend to install Xen from source on your test >> > machine. If you don't have a test machine, you could install it on your >> > laptop. Alternatively, Xen on ARM works well on the Cubietruck, also >> > known as Cubieboard 2 [1][2]. Finally, Xen works also well on top of Xen >> > or KVM virtual machines on x86 (nested virtualization), so that would be >> > another way to test it. >> > >> > I fully agree that the best way to get started is by submitting small >> > patches. We'll get back to you soon with some examples of potential >> > small fixes to do. In the meantime, I encourage you to setup a dev and >> > test environment. >> > >> > >> > [1] https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_ Virtualization_Extensions/Allwinner >> > [2] http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/ products/cubietruck-cubieboard3-cortex-a7-dual-core-2gb-ram-8gb-flash-with- wifi-bt-1 >> >> Hi, Stefano Stabellini. >> >> Thanks for getting back to me and sorry for my late reply. >> >> I've already set up the development environment on my ArchLinux >> laptop(ASUS A555L), >> with the following uname -a: >> Linux sky-arch 4.9.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 19 13:45:52 >> UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> I've also installed and tested it out, and it works quite normally. >> In order to make things work on ArchLinux, >> I've written two scripts to assist the build and install process. >> (See: https://gist.github.com/blackskygg/2c1f63de6b96f035976dd44aaa39170b ). >> >> Hope to hear back from you soon. > > That's good to hear. In terms of initial small contributions to get > familiar with Xen, give a look at the list of open issues: > > https://xenproject.atlassian.net/projects/XEN/board > > most of them are large projects, but some of them are small enough for > an initial contributions, for example, XEN-41 (Allow a default command > line to be embedded in the hypervisor using Kconfig) and XEN-29 (Add > -fstack-protector support to the hypervisor).
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