30 Nov
2011
30 Nov
'11
11:41 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Anup Patel wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to know how Xen-ARM for A15 will address following concerns:
- How will Xen-ARM for A15 support legacy guest environment like ARMv5 or ARMv6 ?
It is not our focus at the moment; we are targeting operating systems that support a modern ARMv7 machine with GIC support. That said, it might be possible to run legacy guests in the future, introducing more emulation to the hypervisor.
- What if my Cortex-A15 board does not have a GIC with virtualization support ?
We expect most hardware vendors to provide a GIC with virtualization support. However if they do not, in order to support their boards we'll have to do more emulation in the hypervisor.