On 07.11.18 07:37, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 06.11.18 20:28, Greg Gallagher wrote: >> This looks really good. How easy is it to add more targets? I looked >> at the jailhouse-images commits to see how to add a board, is that a >> good place to start to see how to add a new board? >> > > Yes, it is. But I'll likely commit at least one real example later today also > to > this project.
Done, was almost too simple. Good to see that we support arm64 that well already. Jan > > The tricky thing is generally enabling the board to boot at all. By now, we > have > covered a pretty broad range of cases, but each board remains different. > E.g., I > still have the enabling of the Ultra96 on my to-do list because building of > the > boot loader is so complicated, even more than the MACCHITObin which was > recently > added to jailhouse-images. You will find good examples in that repo, and I > also > just posted some cases to Isar upstream [1]. > > Once that is done and you have Debian running, only I-pipe issues should > remain, > unless the board has been manually enabled before for this. > > What would definitely be more "interesting" is enabling PowerPC for the first > time because this is not supported by Isar yet (though that should only be > about > adding some arch definitions), I have no clue about the general Debian status, > and I do not know which QEMU target would be best to start with (as many of us > will likely not have any board in reach). But I do want this see this working > as > well. > > Jan > > [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/isar-users/AvDmjp2z9Zo > >> -Greg >> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 1:58 PM Jan Kiszka via Xenomai >> <xenomai@xenomai.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> as I was (and still am) in the need to test also non-x86 from time to time, >>> I >>> hacked up a little framework for generating bootable Debian images with >>> Xenomai >>> pre-installed. It's currently hosted on my personal github space: >>> >>> https://github.com/jan-kiszka/xenomai-images >>> >>> I think we should move this over to the Xenomai group at gitlab.denx.de and >>> expand this step-wise with more archs (that QEMU support) as well as real >>> targets. I think I will add the HiKey board tomorrow, should be rather >>> simple as >>> I did this for jailhouse-images [1], the inspiration and source of this >>> layer, >>> just recently. Provided the ipipe kernel works fine with it. >>> >>> Comments? Suggestions? Opinions? >>> >>> Jan >>> >>> [1] https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse-images >>> >>> -- >>> 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
