Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:47:23 +0100 | From | Stefano Stabellini <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/9] ARM: Xen: fix initial build problems: |
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 19:21 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 October 2012, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > > config XEN > > > > bool "Xen guest support on ARM (EXPERIMENTAL)" > > > > depends on EXPERIMENTAL && ARM && OF > > > > + depends on !CPU_V6 > > > > help > > > > Say Y if you want to run Linux in a Virtual Machine on Xen on ARM. > > > > > > Considering that we rely on the virtualization extensions, this one can > > > be: > > > > > > depends on CPU_V7 > > > > > > The rest looks fine. I can submit a second patch to change !CPU_V6 into > > > CPU_V7 later, if you prefer. > > > > CPU_V6 and CPU_V7 are not exclusive, I saw the problem when building a > > combined kernel for both V6 and V7. The code also needs to depend on ARMv7 > > with virtualization extensions, but that is a different issue. We don't > > actually have a configuration symbol for that yet, as far as I can tell. > > I don't think the guest kernels (including dom0) need the extensions to > run under Xen, they are only need by Xen itself. The guests should just > see a relatively normal v7 processor. > > Stefano, does that sound right?
Keep in mind that we are using HVC to issue hypercalls, and HVC has been introduced with the virtualization extensions, if I am not mistaken.
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