Dear Bertrand,
Just to confirm that the Linux distro is Gentoo. I know it's not very
common these days, but I have used it for very many years and it is what
I am used to.
Gentoo has a xen package but only for arm32 and then masked as unstable
so I just grabbed 4.13 via git. It also has a xen-tools package which
is packaged for arm64 (although still masked as unstable) so I unmasked
and used that. There were a couple of dependency problems with the
package but after I resolved those it seemed to work OK.
There is also a Gentoo u-boot tools package for arm64 but again I got
u-boot via git.
I would be happy to try to report my success via the smoke test page
(https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_Manual_Smoke_Test/Results) if
I can figure out how. Strangely, I can't see anything listed under
"Test Results" from anyone else. Perhaps it is a problem with my browser.
I also notice an instruction which reads "Test hypervisor
functionalities: clone raisin on the platform and run ./raise test". I
can try to do this if it will help. Do I just run "git clone <link from
web page>" and then presumably the test prints out some results?
Happy to try a beta version of Xen if you decide to include the patch
and I can also try some of the interrupt config options if you want.
Cheers,
Richard
On 6/16/20 9:03 AM, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
Hi Richard,
+ Julien and Stefano
On 15 Jun 2020, at 23:29, Richard Simpson <x...@huskydog.org.uk> wrote:
Hello,
Just to report that I have successfully installed Xen on a Pine RockPro64 ARM
SBC.
Very nice :-)
I am using Xen 4.13 booting directly from u-boot on an SD card and my dom0
distribution is Gentoo.
I haven't tried to create a domU yet and I am doing everything via the serial
console so I can't say anything about the graphics.
My biggest hurdle (apart from understanding u-boot) was needing to apply the
vgic-v3: fix GICD_ISACTIVER patch.
What version of Linux are you running ?
I added Julien and Stefano so that we reactivate the discussion on this patch.
I will be happy to provide more details when I have got a bit further, but
after two weeks of effort I was so delighted to finally be able to log into
dom0 that I thought I'd better let somebody know.
Thanks a lot for the notice, and congrats again :-)
Cheers
Bertrand
