On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > My big questions are:
> > Does the Xen project have interest in RISC-V?
>
> There is very large downstream interest in RISC-V. So a definite yes.
Definite Yes from me too
> > What can be done to make the RISC-V port as upstreamable as
> > possible?
> > Any major pitfalls?
> >
> > It would be great to hear all of your feedback.
>
> Both RISC-V and Power9 are frequently requested things, and both suffer
> from the fact that, while we as a community would like them, the
> upstream intersection of "people who know Xen" and "people who know
> enough arch $X to do an initial port" is 0.
>
> This series clearly demonstrates a change in the status quo, and I think
> a lot of people will be happy.
>
> To get RISC-V to being fully supported, we will ultimately need to get
> hardware into the CI system, and an easy way for developers to test
> changes. Do you have any thoughts on production RISC-V hardware
> (ideally server form factor) for the CI system, and/or dev boards which
> might be available fairly cheaply?
My understanding is that virtualization development for RISC-V is done
on QEMU right now (which could still be hooked into the CI system if
somebody wanted to do the work I think.)
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