Hi Stefano, What do you say if we extend this project into "sharing multiple ranges of memory area among VMs from the config file".
Cheers. Zhongze Liu 2017-03-30 9:07 GMT+08:00 Zhongze Liu <blacksk...@gmail.com>: > Hi Stefano, > > Thanks for reminding me of the deadline and providing me with more information > on this project. > > I did setup the arm model and doing well with it. But after that, I > encountered some > private issues that I have to handle first, so I failed to get back to > you immediately. > Sorry for that. > > I would finish the proposal ASAP and start discussing the > implementation details with > you and Julien. > > Thanks again. > > Cheers. > > Zhongze Liu > > 2017-03-29 8:15 GMT+08:00 Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>: >> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> Hello Zhongze, >>> >>> did you manage to make any progress with the ARM model? >>> >>> Finally, I would like to remind you of the upcoming deadline for >>> applications submissions, which is the 3rd of April for GSoC and the >>> 30th of March for Outreachy, see: >>> >>> http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=149071502330534 >>> >>> Please give a look at the Xen Project application template here: >>> >>> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/GSoC_Student_Application_Template >>> >>> It also includes an "Implementation Plan", where you have the chance to >>> explain the implementation plan for the projects you would like to apply >>> for. >> >> FYI I added more info on this project here: >> >> http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=149074641908123 >> >> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Stefano >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Zhongze Liu wrote: >>> > > Back to the GSoC task. >>> > > Do I need to meet any special hardware requirements to complete the >>> > > task? >>> > >>> > No special hardware requirements, what you have below is more than >>> > enough. However, if you have some spare time, it would be helpful for >>> > you to setup an ARM build and test environment too, because it would be >>> > nice if you could make this project work on ARM as well. In fact, this >>> > work is mostly meant to help users in embedded scenarios, which are >>> > mostly ARM based. You could go very far in this project with only the >>> > x86 hardware you have, but you'll need ARM for the last bit. >>> > >>> > First you need a cross-compiler, you can download the latest from >>> > linaro: >>> > >>> > https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest/armv8l-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.02-x86_64_armv8l-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz >>> > >>> > You can download a free ARMv8 emulator from here: >>> > >>> > https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms >>> > >>> > choose "ARMv8-A Foundation Platform for Linux". Then follow these >>> > instructions: >>> > >>> > http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=149021352631609 >>> > >>> > Please read the following emails in the thread too which tells you how >>> > to build Xen and Linux for ARM. We are still solving some issues but the >>> > steps so far are also on the wiki, see "Firmware & boot-wrapper" -> >>> > arm64 and "Foundation Model": >>> > >>> > https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions/FastModels >>> > >>> > >>> > > Currently I have 12G RAM and 128G SSD + 1T HDD. >>> > > The output of "lscpu" on my test machine is as follows: >>> > > >>> > > Architecture: x86_64 >>> > > CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit >>> > > Byte Order: Little Endian >>> > > CPU(s): 4 >>> > > On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 >>> > > Thread(s) per core: 1 >>> > > Core(s) per socket: 4 >>> > > Socket(s): 1 >>> > > NUMA node(s): 1 >>> > > Vendor ID: GenuineIntel >>> > > CPU family: 6 >>> > > Model: 94 >>> > > Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz >>> > > Stepping: 3 >>> > > CPU MHz: 800.030 >>> > > CPU max MHz: 3200.0000 >>> > > CPU min MHz: 800.0000 >>> > > BogoMIPS: 4609.00 >>> > > Virtualization: VT-x >>> > > L1d cache: 32K >>> > > L1i cache: 32K >>> > > L2 cache: 256K >>> > > L3 cache: 6144K >>> > > NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3 >>> > > Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep >>> > > mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht >>> > > tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs >>> > > bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni >>> > > pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr >>> > > pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes >>> > > xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch epb intel_pt >>> > > tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle >>> > > avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt >>> > > xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify >>> > > hwp_act_window hwp_epp >>> > > >>> > > Cheers. >>> > > >>> > > Zhongze Liu. >>> > > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
