Members: Jerry, Zhao JiancongWalt Miner Jan-Simon Moeller

Role of AGL in Virtualization Standardization

• OASIS: general standard on virtio specification
• GENIVI - AVPS: automotive-centered specification
• AGL: coding & implementation for real automotive use (more close to real product)

Virtualization EG Roadmap in 2020

• Support VirtIO in AGL
  • Multi-VM VirtIO PoC 
  • VirtIO White Paper
  • Coding to Support Virtio in AGL

Sub-activities

Multi-VM VirtIO PoC

• 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:
    • SoC: Renesas RCAR Salvator-X
    • HW: LEGO (can be lent from Linux Foundation)
  • 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 steps (step 1: common/basic feature only; step 2; more advanced feau 
  • Who to implement:
    • option 1: voluntary implementation for different hypervisors 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:
    • 2020.9 AGL ALS
    • 2021.1 CES2021
    • 2021.3 AGL AMM

Update on AGL Virtualization White Paper

• Purpose:
  • A summary of virtio discussion in AGL Virtualization EG
  • To include topics such as standardization in automotive virtualization (virtio) in the whitepaper
• Previous AGL Virtualization White Paper: 
• Possible Topics:
  • What is VirtIO and why it is important
  • Role of AGL in virtualization standardization (compared with other OSS promoting community such as OASIS and GENIVI)
  • 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)

VirtIO Coding to Support VirtIO In AGL

• Introduce virtio-blk, net, console, random generator, gpu2d&3d in AGL K
  • release date: Apr, 2021
  • release candidate 1: Nov, 2020
• Introduce other standardized and upstream available virtio devices in AGL L