Out of curiosity, does anyone know of a good site that collates these sorts of details for the range of ARM chips, boards, resellers, etc, etc?
On 21 May 2015 at 10:02, Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> wrote: > The ARM numbering scheme is exceedingly confusing -- it does indeed look > like it doesn't support the virtualisation extensions. It'll be interesting > to see if it boots NetBSD at the moment, since then Martin's work on > Mirump will let us boot MirageOS on it without Xen. > > The rPi 2 does have the virt extensions, but not the requisite interrupt > controller, and so will require a bunch of emulation code in Xen and KVM to > dispatch events to the virtual machines. > > -anil > >> On 14 May 2015, at 18:31, Len Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> What do I look for in an ARM to see if it could support Xen? The Xen >> wiki [0] says that virtualization extensions are required (Cortex-A7, >> -A15, etc.). >> >> Cubox uses Freescale i.MX6Q (A9) -- which has TrustZone, but not the >> virtualization extensions? >> >> I did find something about running KVM on RasPi 2 [1] [2], which is a >> Broadcom A7. >> >> [0]: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions >> [1]: >> http://blog.flexvdi.es/2015/02/25/enabling-hyp-mode-on-the-raspberry-pi-2/ >> [2]: >> http://blog.flexvdi.com/2015/03/17/enabling-kvm-virtualization-on-the-raspberry-pi-2/ >> >> >> thanks, >> -- >> Len >> >> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Another interesting ARM box that should support Xen, pointed out by Justin >>> Cormack. >>> >>> http://www.solid-run.com/product/cubox-i-4x4 >>> >>> 4 cores, 4GB RAM, SATA, gigabit ethernet. Looks like a very good candidate >>> for a (expensive but functional) home router. >>> >>> -anil >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MirageOS-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MirageOS-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MirageOS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel -- Richard Mortier [email protected] _______________________________________________ MirageOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel
