Re: [MirageOS-devel] CuBox-i 4x4: another ARM box

[Richard Mortier <mort@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of a good site that collates these
sorts of details for the range of ARM chips, boards, resellers, etc,
etc?

On 21 May 2015 at 10:02, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ARM numbering scheme is exceedingly confusing -- it does indeed look
> like it doesn't support the virtualisation extensions.  It'll be interesting
> to see if it boots NetBSD at the moment, since then Martin's work on
> Mirump will let us boot MirageOS on it without Xen.
>
> The rPi 2 does have the virt extensions, but not the requisite interrupt
> controller, and so will require a bunch of emulation code in Xen and KVM to
> dispatch events to the virtual machines.
>
> -anil
>
>> On 14 May 2015, at 18:31, Len Maxwell <len@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What do I look for in an ARM to see if it could support Xen?  The Xen
>> wiki [0] says that virtualization extensions are required (Cortex-A7,
>> -A15, etc.).
>>
>> Cubox uses Freescale i.MX6Q (A9) -- which has TrustZone, but not the
>> virtualization extensions?
>>
>> I did find something about running KVM on RasPi 2 [1] [2], which is a
>> Broadcom A7.
>>
>> [0]: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions
>> [1]: 
>> http://blog.flexvdi.es/2015/02/25/enabling-hyp-mode-on-the-raspberry-pi-2/
>> [2]: 
>> http://blog.flexvdi.com/2015/03/17/enabling-kvm-virtualization-on-the-raspberry-pi-2/
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> --
>> Len
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Another interesting ARM box that should support Xen, pointed out by Justin 
>>> Cormack.
>>>
>>> http://www.solid-run.com/product/cubox-i-4x4
>>>
>>> 4 cores, 4GB RAM, SATA, gigabit ethernet.  Looks like a very good candidate 
>>> for a (expensive but functional) home router.
>>>
>>> -anil
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