Qualcomm Continues Working To Upstream Gunyah Hypervisor Support In Linux
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Sent out last week was the 12th round of patches for bringing up the Linux kernel drivers for supporting this Gunyah type-1 hypervisor. Gunyah continues to be promoted as offering "strong security" especially for mobile use, high performance while also taking into account battery life considerations for mobile devices, and this hypervisor also being modular for customizability depending upon intended use-cases. Gunyah currently only supports ARMv8.2+ hardware. The hypervisor itself is open-source under a BSD 3-clause license and can be found on GitHub.
In the past year since previously writing about Gunyah and the Linux driver upstreaming work, the Qualcomm Innovation Center engineers continue working to get the drivers into shape for mainlining. The newly-posted v12 patches square away more issues that were raised during code review, various cosmetic code tweaks, and other refinements made over the past month.
Those interested in the work being done for the Linux kernel around Qualcomm's Gunyah hypervisor can see this patch series for more details.
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