Xen devel - Jul 2013 - [ARM] Xen on Zedboard or ZC702

Greetings,

I would like to ask if it is possible to compile/run Xen ARM on the
Zedboard (or Xilinx ZC702) board. The board has a Cortex A9 dual core
processor. Is it similar to the Arndale board described in the Xen
wiki?

Any response will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
John Velegrakis

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 15:54 +0300, John Velegrakis
wrote:
> I would like to ask if it is possible to compile/run Xen ARM on the
> Zedboard (or Xilinx ZC702) board. The board has a Cortex A9 dual core
> processor. Is it similar to the Arndale board described in the Xen
> wiki?
The mainline port of Xen to ARM[0] requires virtualization extensions
which I believe the Cortex A9 lacks. AFAIK only the Cortex A7 and A15
have them.

There was a previous ARM PV port[1] (which I am not involved with) but
it is effectively dead and I expect won''t support anything so modern as
an A9.

Ian.

[0] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions
[1] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_%28PV%29