Running Barrelfish on the Xeon Phi

This page describes how to build and run Barrelfish on the Intel Xeon Phi co-processor.

Environment Setup

In order to build Barrelfish for the Xeon Phi the user must have setup the GCC toolchain for the K1OM architecture and a NFS share accessible from the machine with the Xeon Phis. In summary, the Intel MPSS SDK has to be installed on the build host.

A detailed environment setup guide can be found here: Environment Setup Guide.

Compiling for Xeon Phi architecture

The system architecture for the Xeon Phi depends on host-based components as well as software running on the Xeon Phi co-processor. Hence, we need to configure Hake with two targets:

$ ../barrelfish/hake/hake.sh -s ../barrelfish -a k1om -a 86_64
$ make

Installing The Xeon Phi Boot Image