Borrow

This document is a deeper explanation of how to reuse the components, patches in this Software Stack.

Reusing the Firmware Patches

The firmware (linux-system.axf) consists of U-Boot and the base device tree, bundled together with boot-wrapper-aarch64. Both U-Boot and boot-wrapper-aarch64 are patched to support the Armv8-R AArch64 architecture. These patches live in meta-arm-bsp 1.

For further details on the boot-wrapper-aarch64 patches see the Boot-wrapper-aarch64 section in Developer Manual. The U-Boot Additional Patches section provides more details on the U-Boot patches.

The base device tree 2 can be found in the meta-arm-bsp Yocto layer.

Reusing the Xen Patches

The patch series for Armv8-R AArch64 with MPU support, which are located in meta-armv8r64-extras/dynamic-layers/virtualization-layer/recipes-extended/xen/files, initialize the PoC (Proof of Concept) of Xen on the Armv8-R AArch64 architecture. These patches are implemented based on Xen 4.17, and the work to upstream these patches to the Xen mainline is in progress.

Reference

1

https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-arm/tree/meta-arm-bsp?h=langdale

2

https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-arm/tree/meta-arm-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/files/fvp-baser-aemv8r64/fvp-baser-aemv8r64.dts?h=langdale