svn commit: r47561 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Oct 15 03:39:16 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Thu Oct 15 03:39:14 2015
New Revision: 47561
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47561

Log:
  Add report on porting bhyve to arm, from Mihai Carabas

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 03:20:13 2015	(r47560)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 03:39:14 2015	(r47561)
@@ -407,4 +407,61 @@
     </sponsor>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>Porting bhyve to ARM-based platforms</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Mihai</given>
+	  <common>Carabas</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mihai at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Peter</given>
+	  <common>Grehan</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>grehan at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2015/PortingBhyveToArm">Project
+	Wiki page</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>This summer we've started porting bhyve onto ARMv7
+	platforms.  We rewrote the low-level routines for ARM processors,
+	while trying to preserve the hypervisor API originally created for
+	the x86 architectures.  We managed to bring up a &os; guest up to
+	the point of initializing interrupts.  There is still work to be
+	done in order to virtualize the interrupts and the timer.  As
+	short-term plan after finishing the interrupts and the timer is
+	porting to a real hardware platform (Cubie2).
+      </p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Virtualize interrupts and timer</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Port to a real hardware platform</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Create SMP support for bhyve-on-arm</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Port to ARMv8</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
