From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dario Faggioli Subject: Re: Xen for real-time/embedded/automotive Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:14:45 +0100 Message-ID: <1385104485.21937.14.camel@Abyss> References: <1384802050.16918.219.camel@Solace> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4635870512999887762==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1384802050.16918.219.camel@Solace> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel Cc: Lars Kurth , Roland Heusser , Artem Mygaiev , Lovene Bhatia , Sisu Xi , Stefano Stabellini , George Dunlap , Joshua Whitehead , Thomas Taranowski , Drek Darkover , Jeremiah Foster , Stefano Panella , Simon Martin , Nate Studer , mdavis@planetaryresources.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============4635870512999887762== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ESpgNugfmThKNAXN8lyh" --=-ESpgNugfmThKNAXN8lyh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BTW, there's another thread going on, related to this topic here: http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-11/msg03004.html (Lars started it by sharing his notes from the "Seeding a Xen + Android / Embedded ecosystem" BoF session we had at the Xen Developer Summit in Edinburgh) On lun, 2013-11-18 at 20:14 +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote: > Hello everyone, >=20 > So, looking at the last Xen Developer Summit, other co-located and > previous conferences, as well as here on the list, there appears to be a > booming interest in running Xen on embedded systems of various kind. >=20 > This mail to say that: > * we're ready to take up the challenge! :-) > * in doing that, we really are interested in everyone's collaboration > or, at very least, feedback. >=20 > So, if you work in embedded/automotive/aerospace/..., what are you > requirements? How can we improve Xen (on ARM) for your use case? >=20 > Personally, I'm mostly interested on the scheduling, latency and, in > general, real-time angle. So whether it is on and Android phone/tablet, > an in-car infotinement system, an audio workstation or a rocket that you > want to run Xen, tell me/us what you need in terms of increased > determinism and decreased latencies! >=20 > For instance, I think it would be nice to start with some measurements: > http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects#Is_Xen_ready_for= _the_Real-Time.2FEmbedded_World.3F > That would basically mean running some latency oriented benchmarks both > in Dom0 and in a guest(s), and compare the result with bare metal. > It would be similar to what Open Source Automation Development Lab > (OSADL) people do on "latency QA farm". Actually, how could would it be > to be able to get in touch with them and have Xen run in there? (They > already do something virt-related, but it's very limited). >=20 > https://www.osadl.org/QA-Farm-Realtime.qa-farm-about.0.html > https://www.osadl.org/Real-time-host-and-kvm-virtualization.qa-farm-rt-ho= st-and-kvm.0.html >=20 > Here they are some (more) links: >=20 > - Presentations (from Lovene and Artem) of Xen on some typical embedded > systems (Android tablet and in-car infotinement) > * http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/sruk-xen-presentation2013v7dual= android > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DKm6gBnIqaWo&feature=3Dyoutu.be > * http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/xen-in-oss-based-in-vehicle-inf= otainment-systems > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dpo1IeElg8tg&feature=3Dyoutu.be >=20 > - The Real-Time Xen project Sisu is working on: > * https://sites.google.com/site/realtimexen/ >=20 > Looking forward to hearing from you! >=20 > Thanks and Regards, > Dario >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --=20 <> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) --=-ESpgNugfmThKNAXN8lyh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlKPBGUACgkQk4XaBE3IOsQbEQCfefJpH1EhXoNIqbAMZvc4ePg5 q94AnRVoWcx3Ff7KIx0vJKMaK5xYV59f =sOUi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ESpgNugfmThKNAXN8lyh-- --===============4635870512999887762== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============4635870512999887762==--