Create a QEMU/development focused kernel
Linaro currently uses an old, ARM Versatile based kernel for host based development. This hardware is no longer available and has some severe limitations such as a maximum of 256 MB of RAM. Create a new kernel image and perhaps QEMU platform designed for using as a fast emulated host.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Michael Hope
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Peter Maydell
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Michael Hope
Whiteboard
Note: michaelh1 marked this as 'superseded' as we'll use a XM model instead.
This system shall be used:
* As a Launchpad buildd host for automatically building ARM based packages
* As a development host on a developers machine
Focus on system emulation.
Some of the features should include:
* virtio based including block and network
* virtfs for sharing files with the host without networking
* configurable to at least 2 GB of emulated RAM
* configurable to use multiple host cores, perhaps through exposing multiple emulated cores
* a upstream kernel .config that is stable and easy to reproduce
Status:
Please see https:/
This is too far down the priority list to be done in this cycle; also there are not currently any good (fast CPU, lots of RAM, PCI, already modelled or easily modelled) boards that we could base this on, and without device tree support a "pure virtual" system is unlikely to be supported by the kernel. So there is no list of work items yet.
MLH changed this to low priority as a 1 GB BeagleBoard XM model is close enough.
Effort: 1-2M
Tags: community
Work Items
Work items:
Please add work items: TODO
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
