Hi Oskar, On Thursday, 26.11.2015 at 14:05, Oskar Maria Grande wrote: > Hi fellow NetBSD / rumpkernel folks, > > I have to say I haven’t been as excited for a long time - NetBSD was my > “entry drug” into the world of unix more than ten years ago and I’m very > thankful for the projects’ existence.
Nice :-) > [snip] > # Raspberry Pi (Zero) - a $5(!) to $25 computer that has more memory and is > faster than the workstation I first compiled the NetBSD kernel on! > > - can we run it? There is an in progress ARM port of bmk which works with the QEMU "Integrator" target. The RPi, RPi2 and RPi0 would be great targets to have, it's just a question of someone doing the work. Antti can probably comment more on how much work is involved. > - can we run it efficiently (IIRC there were quite some driver tweaks > - how and on what can enthusiastic and willing contributors work on to get > there? Send Antti some boards? ;-) > I also don’t know (yet) how far we are in terms of availability / theoretical > performance of hypervisors like xen on the raspberry pi? The RPi, RPi0 have a BCM2835 which does not have support for virtualization. The RPi2 has a BCM2836 which does, but AFAIK there were some issues with it having a non-standard interrupt controller. Need to check with the Xen folks if this has been resolved somehow. Note that Xen/ARM does run today on various Cubieboards. I've not tried it myself but others on the list can comment. So, for Rumprun on Xen/ARM, the relevant Cubieboard would also be a good target for a port. > [snip] > Love & Peace from Vienna, EU Hey, I'm just across the border from you, in Bratislava. We should meet up some time :-) Martin
