arm64 reference board

[Jan Kiszka]

Hi Antonios,

do you happen to have checked this boards already, if it could become
something like a reference board for Jailhouse on ARM64?

https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/

It comes with proper GIC (in contrast to the Qualcomm Dragon) and seems
to have an SMMU as well. It's "just" not yet available on the market...

Jan

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Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

[Dmitry Voytik @ huawei]

Hi Jan,

Let me put my two rusty cents in...

On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 6:21:57 PM UTC+2, J. Kiszka wrote:
> Hi Antonios,
>
> do you happen to have checked this boards already, if it could become
> something like a reference board for Jailhouse on ARM64?
>
> https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
>
> It comes with proper GIC (in contrast to the Qualcomm Dragon) and seems
> to have an SMMU as well. It's "just" not yet available on the market...

That's the problem, you can't buy it. So currently we use ARM DS-5 as the developing platform.
The board is a really good candidate. Until we get something not utterly expensive with PCI, this board could be the right choice. Especially it's Hisilicon ;)

> Jan
>
> --
> Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE
> Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

WBR,
Dmitry Voytik

[Jan Kiszka]

Hi Dmitry,

On 2015-08-27 14:51, Dmitry Voytik @ huawei wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Let me put my two rusty cents in...
>
> On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 6:21:57 PM UTC+2, J. Kiszka wrote:
>> Hi Antonios,
>>
>> do you happen to have checked this boards already, if it could become
>> something like a reference board for Jailhouse on ARM64?
>>
>> https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
>>
>> It comes with proper GIC (in contrast to the Qualcomm Dragon) and seems
>> to have an SMMU as well. It's "just" not yet available on the market...
>
> That's the problem, you can't buy it. So currently we use ARM DS-5 as the developing platform.

I received an offer to get at least one board from a Linaro developer's
stock. If you see a value in early access, I can put you in contact.

But, right, this can't be a reference until it's more broadly available.

> The board is a really good candidate. Until we get something not utterly expensive with PCI, this board could be the right choice. Especially it's Hisilicon ;)

Oh, Huawei-owned... Can't you tell them to ship earlier? ;)

[Antonios Motakis]

Hi Jan,

On 25-Aug-15 18:21, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi Antonios,
>
> do you happen to have checked this boards already, if it could become
> something like a reference board for Jailhouse on ARM64?
>
> https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
>
> It comes with proper GIC (in contrast to the Qualcomm Dragon) and seems
> to have an SMMU as well. It's "just" not yet available on the market...
>

As Dmitry pointed out, it looks like a nice target, if only it was available yet.
Btw where you able to confirm that it has an SMMU?

In the meantime, we have been looking into getting our hands on to some other more powerful options for development.

Antonios


> Jan
>

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Antonios Motakis
Virtualization Engineer
Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH
European Research Center
Riesstrasse 25, 80992 München

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2015-08-27 15:40, Antonios Motakis wrote:
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> On 25-Aug-15 18:21, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Hi Antonios,
>>
>> do you happen to have checked this boards already, if it could become
>> something like a reference board for Jailhouse on ARM64?
>>
>> https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
>>
>> It comes with proper GIC (in contrast to the Qualcomm Dragon) and seems
>> to have an SMMU as well. It's "just" not yet available on the market...
>>
>
> As Dmitry pointed out, it looks like a nice target, if only it was available yet.
> Btw where you able to confirm that it has an SMMU?

The publicly available manual is incomplete but it lists a SMMU_S
region. Didn't find further proof yet.

>
> In the meantime, we have been looking into getting our hands on to some other more powerful options for development.

If it's something commonly available, let us know.

[Dmitry Voytik]

It's doable... we just need to wait when somebody from our team is
promoted to CTO :)

>
> --
> Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE
> Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

--
Best Regards,
Dmitry Voytik.
voy...@gmail.com

[Antonios Motakis]

On 27-Aug-15 16:22, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2015-08-27 15:40, Antonios Motakis wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> On 25-Aug-15 18:21, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Hi Antonios,
>>>
>>> do you happen to have checked this boards already, if it could become
>>> something like a reference board for Jailhouse on ARM64?
>>>
>>> https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
>>>
>>> It comes with proper GIC (in contrast to the Qualcomm Dragon) and seems
>>> to have an SMMU as well. It's "just" not yet available on the market...
>>>
>>
>> As Dmitry pointed out, it looks like a nice target, if only it was available yet.
>> Btw where you able to confirm that it has an SMMU?
>
> The publicly available manual is incomplete but it lists a SMMU_S
> region. Didn't find further proof yet.
>
>>
>> In the meantime, we have been looking into getting our hands on to some other more powerful options for development.
>
> If it's something commonly available, let us know.

In the meantime we have managed to get our hands on a HiKey board. Shiny!

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2015-08-28 10:17, Antonios Motakis wrote:
>
>
> On 27-Aug-15 16:22, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2015-08-27 15:40, Antonios Motakis wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> On 25-Aug-15 18:21, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> Hi Antonios,
>>>>
>>>> do you happen to have checked this boards already, if it could become
>>>> something like a reference board for Jailhouse on ARM64?
>>>>
>>>> https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
>>>>
>>>> It comes with proper GIC (in contrast to the Qualcomm Dragon) and seems
>>>> to have an SMMU as well. It's "just" not yet available on the market...
>>>>
>>>
>>> As Dmitry pointed out, it looks like a nice target, if only it was available yet.
>>> Btw where you able to confirm that it has an SMMU?
>>
>> The publicly available manual is incomplete but it lists a SMMU_S
>> region. Didn't find further proof yet.
>>
>>>
>>> In the meantime, we have been looking into getting our hands on to some other more powerful options for development.
>>
>> If it's something commonly available, let us know.
>
> In the meantime we have managed to get our hands on a HiKey board. Shiny!
>

Good connections... ;) Let me know if you choose to support it, then
I'll organize one here as well.