From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: arm: add support for ARM Cortex-A7 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 19:06:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20131007180606.GE899@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1380303532-4460-1-git-send-email-jonathan.austin@arm.com> <1380303532-4460-3-git-send-email-jonathan.austin@arm.com> <20130930093806.GB26036@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jonathan Austin , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , "penberg@kernel.org" , Marc Zyngier , "STFD002@freescale.com" , "ulrich.hecht@gmail.com" To: Christoffer Dall Return-path: Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:50923 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751212Ab3JGSG1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:06:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 02:26:16PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote: > On 30 September 2013 05:38, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 06:38:52PM +0100, Jonathan Austin wrote: > >> The Cortex-A7 is very similar to the Cortex-A15 and as such there is very > >> little extra infrastructure required for KVM tool to be able to create > >> A7-guests. > >> > >> This patch adds the basic support and allows booting of A7 guests on A7 > >> hosts. It depends on Cortex-A7 support patches posted recently to the kvmarm > >> list. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin [...] > > However, we should hold off applying this to kvmtool until > > KVM_ARM_TARGET_CORTEX_A7 is defined in the kernel sources which it is > > shipped with. Do you have an ETA on this change going into the mainline > > kernel? > > > I plan to merge during next merge window. Great! Any chance you could publish them in your kvm-arm-next branch please? Will