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Import the kernel parts of bhyve/arm64

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Import the kernel parts of bhyve/arm64

To support virtual machines on arm64 add the vmm code. This is based on
earlier work by Mihai Carabas and Alexandru Elisei at University
Politehnica of Bucharest, with further work by myself and Mark Johnston.

All AArch64 CPUs should work, however only the GICv3 interrupt
controller is supported. There is initial support to allow the GICv2
to be supported in the future. Only pure Armv8.0 virtualisation is
supported, the Virtualization Host Extensions are not currently used.

With a separate userspace patch and U-Boot port FreeBSD guests are able
to boot to multiuser mode, and the hypervisor can be tested with the
kvm unit tests. Linux partially boots, but hangs before entering
userspace. Other operating systems are untested.

Sponsored by: Arm Ltd
Sponsored by: Innovate UK
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: University Politehnica of Bucharest
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37428

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andrewAuthored on Jan 9 2024, 3:22 PM
Differential Revision
D37428: Import the kernel parts of bhyve/arm64
Parents
rG0f4071978e3d: arm64: Add TF_LR, it will be used by bhyve asm
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