Okay, I briefly looked at a couple Debian options that I can script the generation of the needed image. I'll go down that path and see what how that goes. I'll hopefully post an update in the next week or so :)
-Greg On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote: > On 2018-05-30 17:46, Greg Gallagher wrote: >> I agree, after the first run of building the images myself I think >> having the user generate the images would make more sense. I'm >> looking into doing that with an existing tool I think yocto may be a >> good choice. I've been generating some images with buildroot as well >> which seems to be pretty straight forward to do and looks to only >> require minimal changes. The other long term goal for this would be >> to make sure a certain set of boards are always sane and new users >> just have to learn the new tools and not debug boot issues. I'll >> hopefully post an update to this soon, I just finished the work to >> bring the bcm2835 to the 4.14 ipipe so it looks like we should be able >> to try more raspberry pi builds. > > Going with a complete our-of-source image is surely an option and has a > value (many users are still basing their development on such > approaches). The disadvantage is that customizations require the user to > rebuild everything. Generating a distro-based image (no, yocto is no > distro) is much faster in this regard, both for rebuilds as well as > extensions. That was my motivation to pick that Debian path for the > Jailhouse demo/reference images. > > Jan > >> >> -Greg >> >> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote: >>> On 2018-05-18 04:00, Greg Gallagher wrote: >>>> https://github.com/ggallagher31/xenomai-3-alpha-images/blob/master/README.md >>>> >>>> >>>> Here is the first attempt of Xenomai-3 reference images, this is based >>>> on 4.14 ipipe kernel and the rootfs is a Ubuntu based. Xenomai was >>>> built off the stable-3.0.x branch. The images are currently hosted on >>>> google drive which may change later but for now it should work. Ping >>>> me if there are access problems. >>>> >>>> Currently only RPI2 is in included with a extremely simple RT app. >>>> Zynq boards and gpio examples will be posted this weekend (yay long >>>> weekend). >>>> >>>> Please send any feedback or suggestion of improvements directly to me >>>> g...@embeddedgreg.com >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for taking actions here, Greg! I think this is a step in the >>> right direction. I didn't have the time to try out the image yet, though. >>> >>> To my understanding, you are manually creating those images so far, >>> right? Or did you also share somewhere some generation script or tool? >>> >>> I've started some similar effort for our Jailhouse hypervisor, but there >>> with the idea to let the user build the images themselves: >>> >>> https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse-images >>> >>> This is currently limited to x86 and ARM64 (the latter is optional >>> because the build is not yet optimized), and we do not have a real board >>> in the portfolio yet, only QEMU / KVM. But that may change soon (I'm >>> planning to look into enabling some OrangePi next - Raspis are way too >>> broken for virtualization). >>> >>> Maybe such a generating approach could be valuable for us as well (once >>> the remaining issues of that approach are solved). What do you think? >>> >>> Jan >>> >>> -- >>> Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE >>> Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux > > > -- > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list Xenomai@xenomai.org https://xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
