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• Purpose: To show the features and evaluate performance for VirtIO automotive use
• Define common specification, architecture and evaluation items for the EG PoC
  • Discussion on VirtIO Devices to be used in different automotive use cases (IVI, IC, Telematics)
    • what virtual devices should be used
    • how the virtual devices should be used (pass-through/front-end/back-end)
• Implementation
  • HW:
    • Emulator: QEMU 
    • SoC: TBD
      • Options:
        • Renesas M3/H3 (H3 is hard to get for some members)
        • Qualcomm Board
        • QEMU x86
        • other companies' SoC
    • HW: TBD
      
      • Options:
        • Renesas Reference Board
        • LEGO
        • ...
  • SW: 
    
    • Hypervisor: Any OSS/commercial hypervisor that supports VirtIO
    • Front-end Device Driver: Open Source
    • Back-end Device Driver: Proprietary for most of the case (QEMU has open source backend) 
  • How:
    • idea: break down to several PoCs with incremental features
      • step 1: common/basic feature only (only 1 guest VM, only simple virtio devices such as virtio-blk, virtio-net)
      • step 2: more advanced feature
  • Who:
    • option 1: voluntary implementation from members (PoC in the name of the company/community)
    • option 2: get funding support from Linux Foundation (PoC in the name of AGL community)
  • Potential Target Event:
    Walt Miner to check if possible to present PoCs in the name of Virtualization EG (ALS, AMM)
    • 2020.9 AGL ALSALS → may be postponed to December and held virtually
    • 2021.1 CES2021 → AGL will not attend CES2021.
    • 2021.3 AGL AMM

Update on AGL Virtualization White Paper

• Purpose:
  • A summary of virtio discussion in AGL Virtualization EG
  • To update original contents in the white paper published 2 years ago
  • To include new topics such as standardization in automotive virtualization (virtio) in the whitepaper
• Previous AGL Virtualization White Paper: https://www.automotivelinux.org/blog/2018/06/20/agl-publishes-virtualization-white-paper/
• Possible Topics:
  • Role of AGL in virtualization standardization (compared with other OSS promoting community such as GENIVI, OASIS and GENIVI)
  • Device Virtualization (VirtIO) Related
    • What is VirtIO and why it is important
    • How VirtIO can be used in automotive (uses cases in IC, IVI, Telematics)
    • Sample VirtIO-based architecture
    • Performance Indicator/Criteria for different virtual devices. Possible open source tools for the evaluation.
  • Future of Standardization in Virtualization of Automotive (such as virtio-backend standardization)

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