Re: [fedora-arm] KVM on Samsung Chromebook A15
On 07/05/2013 05:07 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:59:28AM -0500, Jon wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the availability of Fedora 19 for the 2012 Samsung
> Chromebook featuring ARM Exynos dual core A15 processor.
Sorry to slightly hijack this thread. I will try your remix later.
Reading the comments on https://lwn.net/Articles/557132/#Comments
it seems as if the news on KVM on the Chromebook is not good. It
doesn't boot into HYP mode, and there's no way to make it boot into
HYP mode, so KVM won't be supported. Is that right?
That's roughly what I'd expect to be the case. There might be a signed
U-Boot someone has hacked that does enable HYP mode, but otherwise I
suspect you're out of luck. I'll ask around during Linaro Connect.
Note that this is also specifically why I had the UEFI binding for ARMv8
modified (a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away) such that we
*always* mandate that the OS be entered at the EL2 exception level (not
privilege level in ARMv8 - different), and that we have a standard way
to install a Hypervisor. Unfortunately, on 32-bit systems, you need to
rely upon a magic SMC or similar to do it, and we can't rely on that
being available, or standardized yet. Bottom line is this goes away.
Jon.