[Ksummit-2012-discuss] ARM mini-summit

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:06:28 +0000, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 July 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >> >> > contacts, with Grant and Olof joining in as time permits.
> >> >>
> >> >> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> >> >
> >> > I would be interested in attending it as well. I believe Stefano has
> a
> >> > strong
> >> > interest as well (since he and Ian Campbell are leading the Xen ARM
> >> > work).
> >> 
> >> And Stefano is out on vacation right now so I will serve as his phantom
> >> voice
> >> and say: "Yes, I am interested as well."
> > 
> > Ok. So are you mostly interested in discussion ARM virtualization or
> other
> > topics
> > as well? Last time we had organized this explicitly as the "ARM subarch
> > maintainer
> > summit" and we might again limit the participants to the subarch
> > maintainers and
> > a few more people if we're running out of space, but then again if a lot
> > of them
> > are interested in discussion virtualization, we should probably have you
> > both and 
> > the ARM KVM people included as well.
> > 
> > We haven't even started discussing an agenda, but I'll note down your
> > names as
> > candidates and Xen and/or KVM as proposed topics. I'll follow up with a
> > more
> > formal call for topics once I have a positive confirmation from James
> and
> > the
> > linux-foundation that we can go ahead with the ARM mini-summit.
> 
> Putting on my KVM/ARM hacker hat this time: I'd be very glad to contribute
> to the discussion. There is a number of ARM-specific topics that would be
> interesting to discuss regarding KVM/ARM (mainlining the damn thing, common
> hypercalls?, HYP mode booting), and probably a couple of other things.


That's right: the hypercall calling convention, notifications from the
hypervisor via GIC, the boot process and device tree for virtual
hardware are all interesting topics to discuss.