Re: [Xen-devel] Xen on POWER

2018-03-09 Thread awokd
On Fri, March 9, 2018 12:04 pm, George Dunlap wrote: > I'm all for encouraging people to jump into Xen, but I agree with > Andre here, that you should really count the cost. I doubt this is > the sort of thing a single person could really write and maintain unpaid on > evenings and weekends. Rem

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen on POWER

2018-03-09 Thread awokd
On Fri, March 9, 2018 11:24 am, Andre Przywara wrote: > > If you are serious about it, you need a team. Which is about to stay > around! At least two people, who both know the architecture *and* Xen well. > And it will probably take them more than a year to get something > into a state where you c

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen on POWER

2018-03-09 Thread awokd
On Fri, March 9, 2018 11:25 am, Andrew Cooper wrote: > I expect that once the ball is rolling, it will pick up momentum, given > the interest I've already seen on IRC.  You probably want to hang out on > freenode #xendevel Thanks again for your and the other replies. I have some hardware already

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen on POWER

2018-03-09 Thread awokd
On Fri, March 9, 2018 10:03 am, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 09/03/2018 09:37, awokd wrote: > > Xen currently has x86 and ARM as supported architectures, so there is a > reasonable split between common and arch-specific code.  As a start, you'd > need to implement enough of th

[Xen-devel] Xen on POWER

2018-03-09 Thread awokd
Specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9. Qubes user here. Due to the ongoing manufacturer lock-down of the x86 arch. and security vulnerabilities introduced by same, I'm looking into hardware alternatives. One promising candidate appears to be the POWER architecture. What would it take