Question about Xen on Freescale IMX6 SABRE Board?

Question about Xen on Freescale IMX6 SABRE Board?

[Meng Xu]

Hi,

Does anyone know if Xen 4.5+ can run on Freescale IMX6 QuadCore SABRE board [1]?
I found a video back to 2013 which shows an automotive  demo [2] of
Mentor Graphics' Embedded ARM Hypervisor on Freescale i.MX6 Board.

I'm curious if anyone has run Xen on Freescale IMX6 QuadCore board?
If Xen can run on the board, we want to test how the RTDS real-time
scheduler works on the ARM board.

Thank you very much for your time in answering this question!

Best regards,

Meng

[1] http://www.freescale.com/products/arm-processors/i.mx-applications-processors-based-on-arm-cores/i.mx-6-processors/i.mx6qp/sabre-board-for-smart-devices-reference-design-based-on-the-i.mx-6-series:RDIMX6SABREBRD

[2] http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/12/19/mentor-embedded-arm-hypervisor-automotive-demo-on-freescale-i-mx6-board/


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Meng Xu
PhD Student in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/

Re: Question about Xen on Freescale IMX6 SABRE Board?

[Julien Grall]

On 25/10/15 15:35, Meng Xu wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Meng,

> Does anyone know if Xen 4.5+ can run on Freescale IMX6 QuadCore SABRE board [1]?
> I found a video back to 2013 which shows an automotive  demo [2] of
> Mentor Graphics' Embedded ARM Hypervisor on Freescale i.MX6 Board.
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has run Xen on Freescale IMX6 QuadCore board?

Xen ARM requires virtualization extension in order to work. AFAICT this
board is using Cortex A-9 which doesn't have virtualization extension.

I suspect the demo was done with the Xen ARM PV port [3] which is not
maintained.

> If Xen can run on the board, we want to test how the RTDS real-time
> scheduler works on the ARM board.

FIY, You can find a list of ARM board where we know that Xen boots on
the wiki:

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions#Hardware

> Thank you very much for your time in answering this question!
> 
> Best regards,

Regards,

[3] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Archived/Xen_ARM_(PV)



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Julien Grall