Re: Developer wanted: AMD64 port of Jailhouse hypervisor

[Carlo Vitucci]

Il giorno lunedà 14 aprile 2014 20:27:16 UTC+2, J. Kiszka ha scritto:
> Hi all,
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> so far the Linux-based Jailhouse hypervisor [1] is only available for
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> Intel x86 CPUs. I'm now very happy to announce that AMD is offering to
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> sponsor the initial port of Jailhouse to the AMD64 architecture. Our
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> resources here are unfortunately bound to different tasks, but if anyone
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> out there with the required skills is interested in working on this
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> project, just reply to this email or contact me and Mazda directly.
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> The work to be done is manageable: we basically need corresponding
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> implementations of vmx.c and vtd.c in the current Jailhouse code base -
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> provided our existing abstractions were done right. Someone familiar
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> with virtualization on x86 in general and, ideally, even on AMD
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> processors should be able to complete this task within a couple of weeks.
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> For more details on the Jailhouse architecture and implementations, see
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> our slowly growing Documentation folder in the source tree or simply ask
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> on the mailing list.
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> Jan
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> [1] https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse
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> Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE
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> Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

Hello jailhouse,
 just a thought, if I could. AMD64 is not officially delivered and one
 of the most important new features, that is the direct interrupt delivery,
 is without a final specification. in other words, ARMv8 is the only suitable
 architecture for Jailhouse porting, but there is still a bit fog around.
Best Regards,
Carlo