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Genode on the L4ka::Pistachio microkernel
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Norman Feske
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Pistachio is the reference implementation of the L4 API version x.2 (also
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referred to a v4). It is developed by the System Architecture Group at the
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University of Karlsruhe, Germany and the DiSy group at the University of
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New South Wales, Australia.
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Because this kernel has been the experimentation platform for a lot of exciting
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research experiments at the L4ka group and it is the basis for the commercial
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version of L4 developed by OK-Labs, Pistachio is a very interesting base
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platform for the Genode OS Framework.
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The original port of the Genode OS Framework to Pistachio is the work of Julian
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Stecklina who wanted to elaborate on the portability of the framework and
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explore the use of Pistachio's multi-processor capabilities with Genode.
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This document provides brief instructions about downloading, building and
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booting the Pistachio version of Genode.
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Downloading, building, and using L4ka::Pistachio
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Please make sure that you haved downloaded and installed the tool chain,
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which will be used for both, the L4ka::Pistachio kernel and Genode.
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:[http://genode.org/download/tool-chain]:
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Preconfigured GNU tool chain for building Genode
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To download the kernel source codes, issue './tool/ports/prepare_port pistachio'.
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This command will checkout the upstream Git repository of the kernel. Please
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make sure to have Git installed.
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For the vesa driver on x86 the x86emu library is required and can be downloaded
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and prepared by invoking the following command:
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! ./tool/ports/prepare_port x86emu
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After having successfully prepared the 'base-pistachio' repository and
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'libports' you are ready to create a Genode build directory using the
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'tool/create_builddir':
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! <genode-dir>/tool/create_builddir pistachio_x86 \
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! BUILD_DIR=<build-dir>
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From within this directory, you can build the kernel by using 'make kernel'.
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The kernel will be built within '<build-dir>/kernel/pistachio' using the Genode
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tool chain.
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To build and start Genode directly from within the Genode build directory,
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issue
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! make run/demo
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This command will execute the steps described in the run script located at
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'os/run/demo.run'. It will build all Genode components needed for the demo
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scenario, create a configuration, and start the scenario using Qemu. To inspect
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the individual steps more closely or learn the steps needed to manually
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integrate Genode with L4ka::Pistachio, please revisit the Pistachio-specific
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run environment at 'base-pistachio/run/env'.
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Using an externally supplied kernel
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It is possible to use a L4ka::Pistachio kernel that is manually downloaded
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and built. To let Genode use an external kernel, create a file called
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'<build-dir>/etc/pistachio.conf' with the following declarations:
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! PISTACHIO_USER_BUILD_DIR = <location-of-pistachio/user/build>
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The location of the Pistachio user-level build directory is the place where
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Genode looks for the kernel-interface header files and the system bindings.
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! PISTACHIO_KERNEL = <location-of-the-pistachio-kernel>
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The specified kernel binary will be used when executing run scripts.
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