visoreXtensible Versatile hypervISOR

Xvisor v0.2.9 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 08:55:16 +0530  |  Posted by: Anup Patel

In this release, we primarily have new drivers, emulators and board supports.

New Features:

• Make DTC as GIT submodule
• Generic host MSI framework (EXPERIMENTAL)
• Load-balancer is totally optional
• SDIO interface support in MMC driver framework (EXPERIMENTAL)
• Linux-like generic page table allocator for IOMMUs
• Mailbox framework ported from Linux

New Commands:

• gpio command
• spidev command
• set_hcpu sub-command to vcpu command
• set_affinity sub-command to vcpu command

New Drivers:

• i.MX6 HDMI driver
• Renesas SCIF serial port driver (Experimental)
• BCM283x miniuart driver
• BCM283x SPI controller driver
• GICv3 interrupt-controller driver
• ARM LPAE io-pgtable driver
• ARMv7 small descriptor io-pgtable driver
• Renesas VMSA-compatible IPMMU driver
• BCM2835 mailbox driver
• RaspberryPi firmware driver
• Zynq uart driver

New Emulators:

• Guest/VM Info emulator
• Simple framebuffer emulator

New Boards:

• Added Raspi3 (BCM2837) board support
• Added Xilinx ZynqMP ZCU102 board support

ARM Ports:

• Added Guest/VM Info device in all ARM guest types
• FreeRTOS guest OS on VExpress-A9 Guest
• Added simplefb device for virt-v7 and virt-v8 guest types
• Added autoboot support in basic firmware for all ARM guest types
• Made Guest NOR flash 32MB for all guest types
• Specify SMP logical ID for secondary CPUs based on smp_logical_map()
• Added CLCD support for Foundation v8 Model
• Added support for psci-0.2
• Added support for psci system restart and psci system shutdown

ARM32 Port:

• No change

ARM32ve Port:

• Added architecture specific GICv3 interface

ARM64 Port:

• Added architecture specific GICv3 interface

x86 Port:

• No change