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Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 for ARM


From: Leif Lindholm
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 for ARM
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 15:09:46 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:25:55PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > What's with 64-bit ARM?
> 
> TBH I thought the GRuB On ARM stuff was mainly targeting 64-bit (at
> least within Linaro). Do you have native grub on 32-bit ARM already
> then?

Linaro Enterprise Group (where I am) is now almost exclusively focusing
on 64-bit, but that only became the case after Connect in Dublin (July).

U-Boot on aarch32 was the first port, since that is what the first
available hardware was using. Then came UEFI on aarch64.

> As far as 64-bit hardware goes you will have a struggle finding any at
> all right now, nevermind for under $100.
> 
> We should at some point be able to support the freely (as in beer)
> available Foundation model, but we don't right now.

There are instructions for how to build and run Tianocore edk2 (UEFI)
on it:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=ArmPlatformPkg/AArch64

/
    Leif



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