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
