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Revision as of 17:46, 2 July 2015
This is a list of open work items and known bugs for the Xen on ARM with virtualization extension project.
In progress
Open Work Items
Save/restore and migration
| Contact: xen-devel@lists.xen.org | 
| Description: Make VM save/restore and VM migration work on ARM. | 
| References: An initial prototype was written a couple of years ago for arm32 but never completed: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-06/msg02076.html | 
PCI device assignment to DomUs
| Contact: xen-devel@lists.xen.org | 
| Description: Assign one or more devices to an unprivileged guest, re-program the SMMU accordingly. | 
| References: Not specified, useful references. | 
ITS support
| Contact: xen-devel@lists.xen.org | 
| Description: Physical and virtual ITS support for GICv3. | 
| References: Work underway: http://marc.info/?i=1426775889-29442-1-git-send-email-vijay.kilari%40gmail.com | 
Expose Wallclock time to guests
| Contact: xen-devel@lists.xen.org | 
| Description: Current Xen on ARM does not popular the wallclock time fields of the shared info with anything useful. It should do so... | 
| References: Partial/incomplete code http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/220265 | 
More flexible early printk support
| Contact: xen-devel@lists.xen.org | 
| Description: Allow a single Xen binary to support multiple platforms for early_printk Rather than parsing the DTB early in asm to get the command line it would probably be sufficient to have a magic hex byte at a specific offset which could be edited by a simple tool. | 
| References: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01880.html | 
Support for DT /chosen/stdout-path node
| Contact: xen-devel@lists.xen.org | 
| Description: ePAPR 1.1 3.5 defines the /chosen/stdout-path property which contains the path to the serial device as a string.
 We could potentially make two uses of this: 
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| References: https://www.power.org/documentation/epapr-version-1-1/ https://git.kernel.org/linus/a208ffd251d08ed7ba6bdf3ae1e423373fb12d3d https://git.kernel.org/linus/3482f2c52b77bf6596e24aae82e204a0603eba66 | 
VCPU virtual time support
| Contact: xen-devel@lists.xen.org | 
| Description: Currently the concept of virtual time exposed to the guests is very simplistic and is just a static offset from physical time based on the time when the guest was started. We need to consider if this is actually what is needed/wanted and consider cases such as stolen time etc. | 
| References: A patch series was sent to the LKML but never fully upstreamed: http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=138929238127454&w=2 | 
