Hi Tod, we didn''t make any more progress on the Chromebook port so the page above is the most recent information we have on it. Honestly the Chromebook is not a good development platform, so if I were you, I would wait for the new Arndale or buy a Cubieboard2 for which there is an active effort in progress to port Xen to it (http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=137784689820437). Also keep in mind that the mailing list to discuss the Xen ARM virtualization extensions port is xen-devel@xenproject.org. Cheers, Stefano On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, tod carpenter wrote:> It looks as if one of the most active XenARM projects is Xen on the Samsung Chromebook on the Cortex A15, which definitely > is attractive. However, much of the information out there (e.g., XenSummit presentations, wiki.xenproject.org, and even > these lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-arm) seems a bit light on detail in 2013 since April. Is there still active > work on Xen on the Chromebook? Is it stable, or is it still active research? At this point, I''d be happy with Dom0 and a > single guest. The following page: > > http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions/Chromebook > > seems to imply it might be possible to get it running. Stefano Stabellini''s message from this March: > > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-arm/2013-03/msg00003.html > > says that it _is_ running, but I thought I would double check about stability before purchasing a Samsung Chromebook. Is > the above (brief) xenproject page the most detailed instructions for getting it to work? Do you have any comments on the > stability - is it reasonably likely to be able to get it to work on a new Samsung Chromebook by following those > instructions, or should I still expect many system-specific issues? Would it be better to wait a few months until the new > arndale board is available, or will that have its own host of issues? > > By way of getting ready, I built a cross-compiler environment on Ubuntu Raring, and have everything compiled (including > dist-xen) _except_ I get stuck at cross-compiling the dom0 zImage: > > >$ git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/people/aperard/linux-chromebook.git > >$ export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- > >$ export ARCH=arm > >$ make zImage > ... > arch/arm/kernel/debug.S:164: Error: ARM register expected -- `ldr r2,[ r3,#(0x08)]'' > ... > > This was reported here by Chen Baozi 5 months ago, > > http://www.marshut.com/iiuzw/boot-in-hyp-mode-on-samsung-arm-chromebook.html#ipymh > > but I didn''t see a resolution, other than the comment "apparently a bug in ubuntu''s native gcc" and the implication of > moving over to Fedora. Any thoughts on unbreaking it? > > One thing I noticed is that "make clean" for the linux build doesn''t remove the old xen-arm/xen/arch/xen.lds, which was > somewhat frustrating to hunt down after I fat-fingered the .dtb > > Thanks! > > (sorry if this is a partial repeat. I originally posted part of this from a different address than the one from which I''m > subscribed to the list) > > Todd Carpenter_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel