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Tuesday, August 18 • 10:30am - 11:00am
Getting U-Boot FIT for Xen - Robbie VanVossen & Paul Skentzos, DornerWorks

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The Flattened Image Tree (FIT) image is a single formatted binary that supports multiple images and configurations that U-Boot understands. This format allows U-boot to perform integrity checks on the images, load a single image, and select from multiple configurations. The FIT format originally only allowed for loading a single kernel, a single ramdisk, and a single Flattened Device Tree (FDT) from the items in the image. But Xen requires two kernels: one for the Xen hypervisor and one for the Dom0 OS. So until now Xen users could not take advantage of the multiple benefits of the FIT image. Robert VanVossen will give an overview of the modifications DornerWorks made to U-Boot, allowing the FIT format to support loading generic images. He will further explain the benefits this brings to the Xen community and provide some examples of generating and using a FIT image to boot a Xen system.
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Paul Skentzos

Paul Skentzos is currently a software engineer in DornerWorks’ hypervisor group. While at DornerWorks, he also spent time developing the technical and business goals for the hypervisor. Previously he was the lead engineer at InterMet Systems and Applied Analytics, where he developed... Read More →
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Robbie VanVossen

Embedded Systems Engineer, DORNERWORKS
I am an embedded systems engineer at DornerWorks in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I have done work with ARINC653 extensions for the Xen Hypervisor. I am also involved with providing support for Xen on the Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC.I co-presented at the 2014 Xen Developer's Summit.

Tuesday August 18, 2015 10:30am - 11:00am PDT
Ravenna C Sheraton Seattle, 1400 6th Ave., Seattle, WA 98101
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