ARMv8 development board with GICv3

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:39:43 -0700 (PDT)
"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> > On 2018-06-13 09:06, Marcelo Araujo wrote:
> > > 2018-06-13 14:54 GMT+08:00 Alexandru Elisei 
> > > <alexandru.elisei at gmail.com>:
> > > 
> > >> Hello,
> > >> 
> > >> I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is
> > >> able to successfully boot a FreeBSD virtual machine on the Foundation
> > >> Emulator provided by ARM.
> > >> 
> > >> I plan to submit the project for review, but before that I need to
> > >> validate the hypervisor on a hardware platform.
> > >> 
> > >> Can anyone be so kind as to recommend a development board for testing?
> > >> The board needs to have an ARMv8 CPU with virtualization extensions
> > >> implemented (Exception Level 2 needs to be available) and a GIC
> > >> version 3 compliant interrupt controller.
> > >> 
> > >> Thank you,
> > >> Alexandru Elisei
> > > 
> > > Hello Alexandru,
> > > 
> > > Excited to see your work!
> > > 
> > > I have Cc manu@ as I know he works a lot with embedded devices and 
> > > probably
> > > he can give you some suggestions.
> > > I'm sure he is on freebsd-arm@ mailing list, but even though I'm Cc'ing 
> > > him.
> > > 
> > > Best,
> > > --
> > 
> >   A quick grep in the linux dts directory for arm64 give me a few SoC 
> > where we boot on it :
> > 
> >   Thunderx and Marvell 37XX.
> > 
> >   That being said I think you better try with a gic-v2 board as I adviced 
> > in AsiaBSDCon this year.
> 
> Emmanuel,
> 
> Can you tell me what GIC is in the Samsung Chromebook SNOW?
> https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/samsung-arm-chromebook
> 
> Thanks,
> Rod

 Well it's cortex a15 so 32 bits so clearly not v3.
 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5.dtsi#L88

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>