[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#795516: [patch] Enable Xen support on armhf and arm64 architectures

[Yann Soubeyrand]

Le samedi 15 août 2015 à 10:42 +0200, Guido Günther a écrit :
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:35:15PM +0200, Yann Soubeyrand wrote:
> > I cross built the modified packages for armhf and arm64 using
> > cowbuilder with qemu-debootstrap and it seems to work properly on 
> > my Cubietruck using Jessie and U-Boot from Stretch (to enable HYP
> > mode)
> 
> Should we suggest a U-Boot version that has this support for armhf 
> then?

Don't you think this suggestion should better be made by the libxen
package?

> From what I read we don't need anything else to enable HYP mode, is 
> that correct?

Yes, this is the bootloader which is responsible to start Xen in HYP
mode. With regard to KVM, U-Boot will start the Linux kernel in HYP
mode but this one has to support being started in HYP mode (which has
been the case since several versions now).

> 
> Cheers,
>  -- Guido

Cheers

Yann