On 2014-05-23 10:46, Philipp Eppelt wrote:
On 05/21/2014 03:54 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:04 AM,
Christian Mauderer
<christian.maude...@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
First of all: Thanks for your comments. You will find answers below.
Am 20.05.2014 16:58, schrieb Gedare Bloom:
That is correct. It's part of XtratuM. Is there some preferred way of
marking such headers?
Not that I know of. We have discussed a similar issue with the POK
paravirtualization project. The problem is to allow external code
linking to RTEMS. The design should be considered carefully and
probably discussed in a separate thread.
To pick up this discussion, I like first to picture the problem, second
to collect possible solutions and third name some known problems with
the solutions.
In a paravirtualized environment we need to make function calls from our
guest system to the host system. The implementation of these functions
rely sole on the host system.
Hence, at compile time the guest system is missing the implementation of
this host specific functions.
To provide the guest system with the function implementation there are a
couple of possible solutions.
(A) Provide a host library
The host compiles a library containing the function implementations
including all dependencies. This host library is passed to the guest
system, to resolve the `undefined reference` errors during link time.
In the case of POK+RTEMS the resulting RTEMS binary is a valid POK
partition and can run without further modifications.
The recently propose XantruM BSP seems to follow a similar approach.
Yes, for XtratuM we tried to use (A). XtratuM is just a normal operating
system with virtual memory (like Linux). The guest systems are like processes
and run in user mode. They interact with the hypervisor via so called
hypercalls which are really just system calls, but this sounds hypertimes more
sophisticated.
For a minimum BSP it is possible to avoid a guest support library entirely and
simply use a handful of hypercalls. This probably avoids also the GPLv2
problem. A RTEMS application is then a normal ELF executable.
The guest support library provides some higher level services like message
passing between partitions, etc. (this is just pack/unpack of data plus a
hypercall).
XtratuM contains some additional tools to glue partition executables together
with the hypervisor and a boot loader. Maybe this is the point in which GPLv2
creates derivative work.
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