Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/36] AArch64: Kernel booting and initialisation | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:28:12 +0000 |
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On Friday 20 July 2012, Jon Masters wrote: > > I think it would be best to list the technical limitations, from the > > kernel's perspective, of the unsupported exception levels and the > > advantages of the supported exception levels here. If you want to guide > > system builders towards EL2, I think it'd be more convincing to document > > the relevant technical aspects (perhaps KVM needs facilities only > > available in EL2) than just providing an unexplained requirement. > > Unless you enter at EL2 you can never install a hypervisor. That's the > reason for the requirement for generally entering at EL2 when possible.
How do nested hypervisors work in this scenario? Does the first-level hypervisor (counting from most priviledged) provide a guest that starts in an emulated EL2 state, or is this done differently?
Arnd
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