From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoffer Dall Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: arm: add support for ARM Cortex-A7 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:18:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20131011181851.GK5108@cbox> 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> <20131007180606.GE899@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: Will Deacon Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:54723 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752105Ab3JKSSY (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:18:24 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id rq2so4551364pbb.5 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131007180606.GE899@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 07:06:06PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > 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? > Working on it, need to test them first, hopefully this weekend! Otherwise Monday. -Christoffer