Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC Proposal: ARM Virtualization Extensions

[Edgar E. Iglesias]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 07:30:07AM -0700, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
> On 20.03.2015 21:49, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Sergey, that's good to hear!
> >
> > Peter, Yes I have quite a bit of patch material but unfortunately a lot of
> > it is not in a state for upstreaming. I know I've promised to clean
> > it up and submit more but I have not been able to find time for it,
> > sorry about that...
> >
> > Patches that I planned to send are around hyp timers, misc bugfixes
> > here and there and maybe the GIC virt extensions.
> >
> > The 2 stage MMU code I have is shamefully ugly but it kind of works
> > so it is useful for understanding some of the problems that need to be
> > solved. (works well enough to boot XEN and KVM guests).
> >
> > Sergey and myself communicated a bit off-list a while back ago
> > and he expressed interest in AArch64 EL2 and my code. Sergey, it would be
> > very interesting to hear more details on how you are doing on that?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Edgar
> 
> Hi Edgar,
> 
> I successfully reproduced your results with running KVM on your patches.
> Then I decided to start implementing the features without looking at
> your code so that I can get somewhat different view on how to implement
> that. Then I plan to compare my and your code and make a final version.
> 
> Now I've got patches that allows to boot Linux kernel with KVM enabled.
> So KVM initialization is happy. Basically, I added some EL2 registers
> required by KVM and adjusted page table walk to support EL2 translation
> regime. A colleague of mine has prepared a patch to support
> virtualization extensions in generic timer.
> 
> Before sending patches here, I will do my best to carefully compare my
> final code against yours and credit you appropriately in that patches
> for any derivatives found. Anyway, do not hesitate to ask questions or
> point out any misses in respect of this matter.


Thanks Sergey!

Cheers,
Edgar