RE: Device Driver Reuse

Hi Roberto,

Yes there are still people (me) working on the afterburner. Mostly internal prototyping though, far less attention is spent to the external project pages.

Here's a quick suggestion on getting UP afterburner/pre-virtualization to work (I've sent that to l4ka a while ago):

- Download the afterburner via mercurial
- No need to download pistachio or IDL tools etc., the afterburner make script will download it
- check out and inspect the sample config.out files in afterburner/configs, e.g.,
  - choose sample-config.out if you'd like to have para-virtualized linux guests
  - choose sample-config-hvm.out if you'd like fully-virtualized guests (WARNING: WORK IN PROGRESS). Works only with Intel VMX
- create a build directory, run "make -f path/to/afterburner/Makefile", copy your favorite sample config into "build/config.out", run "make menuconfig" to edit the settings, finally run "make world", which will produce binaries in "build/boot"
- make "run-qemu" runs the afterburner in qemu

Just a quick tip: use gcc and g++ Versions 3, e.g. by running make CC=gcc3 CXX=g++3, or by putting "CC=gcc3" and "CXX=g++3" into the local build Makefile.

-Jan


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Jan Stoess
System Architecture Group
University of Karlsruhe
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Jan Stoess
KIT/UKa System Architecture Group
Phone: +49 (721) 608-4056
Fax: +49 (721) 608-7664
eMail: [email protected]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
> karlsruhe.de] On Behalf Of Roberto Jung Drebes
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 7:18 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Device Driver Reuse
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> Hello there,
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> Is there anyone still working on the afterburner project? I'm trying
> to make some experiments with the device driver reuse framework, but
> have some questions about it. I contacted Josh LeVasseur but he told
> me he's not working on it anymore, unfortunately.
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> I already downloaded the afterburner sourcecode through mercurial but
> am lost about how to setup the supporting environment. Tried to build
> the documentation but the figures are missing.
> 
> Any tips?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
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> Roberto Jung Drebes - Tokyo, Japan
> <[email protected]>
> http://japao.drebes.org/
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