Porting a Static Partitioning Hypervisor to Arm's Cortex-R52

Explore the process of porting the Bao static partitioning hypervisor to Arm's Cortex-R52 platforms in this informative conference talk. Delve into the evolution of E/E architectures and the increasing reliance on virtualization technology for workload isolation in automotive manufacturing. Examine the Cortex-R52 processor, the first to implement the MPU-based Armv8-R architecture with virtualization support for real-time systems. Compare and contrast Armv8-R with Armv8-A, focusing on virtualization capabilities and the challenges encountered during the porting process. Investigate MPU-based virtualization use cases, their configuration, and setup. Conclude with a discussion on open issues in these systems and witness a live demonstration of Bao running multiple virtual machines on a Cortex-R52 platform.

Porting of a Static Partitioning Hypervisor to Arm’s Cortex-R52 - José Martins & Sandro Pinto