Embedded and Automotive/Archived/PV Drivers/Roadmap

Note that this roadmap is out-of-date. Some of the work has been superseded and others has happened.

Legend: ✓: Done ✓: In Progress ✗: Abandoned

Project Infrastructure and Initial GlobalLogic Contribution

• Set up Project infrastructure (code repos and mailing list) ✓
  • ✓ mailing list
  • ✗ code repos were not needed, see below
• Initial code contribution of QNX drivers by GlobalLogic ✗
  • ✗ Abandoned, as interest has shifted from QNX to AGL, for which there is an upstream. The risk of having to maintain an unnecessary Xen port was considered too high at this stage
• Various Whitepapers and studies ✓ see Automotive Whitepapers
• Add Wiki pages (instruction to get SW build for TI J6 EVM)

Planned Code Contributions

• Xen Project Hypervisor changes: some for 4.4 ✓ see Xen Project 4.4 Feature List
• Xen Project Hypervisor changes: some for 4.5 ✓ see Xen Project 4.5 Feature List
• Xen Project Hypervisor changes: some for 4.6 ✓ see Xen Project 4.6 Feature List
• QNX & Tizen baseports to run as Xen Project guests ✗
  • ✗ Interest has shifted to AGL
• Upstream RT Scheduler performance improvements to Hypervisor - ✓ See RTDS-Based-Scheduler in Xen 4.5 - additional work ongoing and planned for Xen 4.7
• GPU virtualization PV drivers using OpenGL ✗
  • ✗ This was prototyped and replaced by an alternative approach, which for now exists out-of-tree until it is clear whether it can be upstreamed
• Adding support for Renesas R-Car M2/H2 hardware – ✓ Initial support in Xen 4.6, some support planned for later
• Thin Dom0 (only containing kernel with Xen tools on Dom 0 - and no drivers or other functionality - for disaggregated architecture)
• ISO 26262 certification - ongoing

Project Wish list (unplanned at this stage)

• Power Management Improvements
• Arctic Core – Open Source Autosar
• Better support for SMMU