[PATCH v17 01/35] docs: gunyah: Introduce Gunyah Hypervisor

Pavan Kondeti quic_pkondeti at quicinc.com
Tue Mar 5 02:53:12 PST 2024


On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 03:16:24PM -0800, Elliot Berman wrote:
> Gunyah is an open-source Type-1 hypervisor developed by Qualcomm. It
> does not depend on any lower-privileged OS/kernel code for its core
> functionality. This increases its security and can support a smaller
> trusted computing based when compared to Type-2 hypervisors.

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> 
> Add documentation describing the Gunyah hypervisor and the main
> components of the Gunyah hypervisor which are of interest to Linux
> virtualization development.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman at quicinc.com>
> +- Virtual platform:
> +
> +  Architectural devices such as interrupt controllers and CPU timers are
> +  directly provided by the hypervisor as well as core virtual platform devices
> +  and system APIs such as ARM PSCI.
> +
> +- Device Virtualization:
> +
> +  Para-virtualization of devices is supported using inter-VM communication and
> +  virtio transport support. Select stage 2 faults by virtual machines that use

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> +  proxy-scheduled vCPUs can be handled directly by Linux to provide Type-2
> +  hypervisor style on-demand paging and/or device emulation.
> +


The doc patch looks good to me.

Thanks,
Pavan



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