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diff --git a/meta-agl-jailhouse/README.md b/meta-agl-jailhouse/README.md index 395b49d4..fb0a3d42 100644 --- a/meta-agl-jailhouse/README.md +++ b/meta-agl-jailhouse/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,44 @@ -JAILHOUSE SUPPORT LAYER ------------------------ +# Jailhouse support layer + +Yocto layer that enables use of the Jailhouse partitioning hypervisor - <https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse>. + +## How to use + +The AGL feature `agl-jailhouse` has to be enabled. That needs to be done when including aglsetup.sh, for example: + + source meta-agl/scripts/aglsetup.sh -m raspberrypi4 agl-demo agl-netboot agl-appfw-smack agl-jailhouse + +That will enable this layer and include the `jailhouse` package in the image. + +Then, in the target system, the cell configurations (*.cell) are placed in `/usr/share/jailhouse/cells/` and the demo inmates (bare-metal applications to run in a non-root cell) are located in `/usr/share/jailhouse/inmates`. + +## Raspberry Pi 4 example + +Use this commands to enable Jailhouse and run the GIC demo inmate in a non-root cell. After issuing these commands, the GIC demo will be mesauring jitter of a timer and print the output on the serial console of the RPi. + + jailhouse enable /usr/share/jailhouse/cells/rpi4.cell + jailhouse cell create /usr/share/jailhouse/cells/rpi4-inmate-demo.cell + jailhouse cell load inmate-demo /usr/share/jailhouse/inmates/gic-demo.bin + jailhouse cell start inmate-demo + +## Dependencies + +This layer depends on: + +* URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-arm + * branch: dunfell + * revision: 0bd9c740267c0926e89bcfdb489790b7bf1fbd4b + * note: actually only required on the Raspberry Pi 4 target + +## Supported targets + +* Raspberry Pi 4 + * Currently only the 1 GB RAM variant. The other ones will work too, + but will be limited to 1 GB of memory. + +* QEMU x86-64 + * Work in progress. Requires KVM. Nested virtualization must be enabled on the host. Currently, the right configuration of QEMU and Jailhouse to work out-of-box is being worked on. + + + -to be written |