Hi Andrew, thanks very much for your interests of ACRN project. Yes ACRN is growing up very quickly, we enabled several HW platforms in: https://projectacrn.github.io/latest/reference/hardware.html

Started from Apollo Lake (NUC6CAYH/UP2) and Kaby Lake(NUC7i7BNH) with v1.0/…/6 releases for automotive usage, and enabled Whiskey Lake(WHL-IPC-I7) with v2.0/…/3 for Industrial scenario. Then started latest 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors (codenamed Tiger Lake-UP3).  Actually we are also looking for mature/commercial TGL NUC or UP Xtreme(www.aaeon.com/) on market, but no available board and conclusion yet. So welcome any preference/suggestion from you and community : )

So for Industrial usage, Whiskey Lake and Maxtang WL-10 board is still preferred platform. If you do not have available Kaby Lake NUC7i7xxx, you may wait for sometime, when TGL NUC or UP Xtreme ready in market. We will also keep you updated and refresh Supported Hardware in ACRN project page.

For ‘supported’ platform, we did not break-down each feature on HW, but general separated user scenario, e.g., Apollo Lake/Kaby Lake only for SDC scenario, but Whiskey Lake for all scenarios: Safety VM, Logical Partition…

Best Regards

Terry

From: acrn-users@... <acrn-users@...> On Behalf Of Andrew Back
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 6:44 PM
To: acrn-users@...
Subject: [acrn-users] Intel Core i7 board options.

Hi All,

New to ACRN and wondering what the best options currently are for Intel Core i7 hardware? The documentation lists two NUC7i7xxx boards, but these are now a few years old. The v2.3 release notes mention 11th Gen Intel Core processors, but NUC models with these don't appear to be available yet and I am also not sure if going with the very latest hardware would be wise, considering that we want to focus our efforts on the application, and not debugging and ACRN development. Perhaps there are currently available more recent NUC i7 boards, that would be suitable? Also doesn't have to be NUC and could be some other, similar SFF board that is suited to embedded use. E.g. UP Xtreme.

It's also not entirely clear to me what "supported" means in this context. For example, perhaps it is the case that other Intel Core boards may work, but are not officially supported. Similarly with usage scenarios in the Supported Hardware matrix — are these those which have simply been verified with each platform, or perhaps some boards may lack certain features to support a particular scenario?

Regards,

Andrew