Re: [PATCH 2/4] target/arm: Correctly honour HCR.TID3 for v7A cores

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 15:20, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>> > If you have suggested names that you think make more sense,
>> > I'm open to them -- since I started by knowing the behaviour
>> > to me the names I ended up with seem more "obvious" to me than
>> > they would to somebody else, and it's the "somebody else" that
>> > I'm trying to help with the naming...
>>
>> I think I follow now. My only real suggestion would be to make the name
>> _v7a to be distinct from the v7m profile. Although HCR.TID3 seems to
>> exist for v7r as well.
>>
>> Anyway:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>
> Thanks; I'll make that change and apply these to
> target-arm.next.
>
> FWIW, v7R can't have the virtualization extension, so
> it doesn't have HCR.TID3. Virtualization for R-profile
> only came in with v8R.

Ahh found it described as "OPTIONAL set of extensions to VMSAv7" - so as
a subset of the memory model architecture. I guess because v7r is
PMSAv7. So many acronyms ;-) 

>
> thanks
> -- PMM

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro