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From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/4] arm64: dts: Add mediatek MT8173 SoC and evaluation board dts and Makefile
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:07:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5497DF4C.4000104@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3669965.zfJEHTFEBI@wuerfel>

On 20/12/14 20:07, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 December 2014 15:01:29 Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>
>> Indeed, as described in the documentation:
>> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0471b/CHDIFAEE.html
>>
>> Also it is worth noticing that given how GICV is placed, it will never
>> work with 64K pages and virtualization. Pretty sad.
> 
> Does this mean no VGIC support on this platform so you have to emulate it
> in order to run virtual machines with 64K pages, or does it mean that
> it's impossible to use that way because you can't emulate it?

As Peter said, this is not a configuration we're willing to support:
- we don't have a API to tell userspace emulation about interrupts
generated by the generic timers
- we could move the whole GIC emulation into the kernel (at the moment,
only the distributor is there), but that would be a complete nightmare

It really looks like a case of "let's drop a bunch of 64bit cores into
an existing SoC". Shame people can't read integration guidelines...

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-22  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-17 14:17 [PATCH v2 0/4] Add basic support for Mediatek MT8173 SoC Eddie Huang
2014-12-17 14:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] Document: DT: Add bindings for mediatek MT8173 Soc Platform Eddie Huang
2014-12-17 14:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] irqchip: mtk-sysirq: Get irq number from register resource size Eddie Huang
2014-12-17 14:17 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] arm64: dts: Add mediatek MT8173 SoC and evaluation board dts and Makefile Eddie Huang
2014-12-17 14:33   ` Mark Rutland
2014-12-17 15:01     ` Marc Zyngier
2014-12-20 20:07       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-20 22:54         ` Peter Maydell
2014-12-22  9:07         ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2014-12-23  8:02           ` Eddie Huang
2014-12-23  8:43             ` Marc Zyngier
2014-12-23 21:07               ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-24  8:47                 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-12-23  7:30     ` Eddie Huang
2014-12-17 14:17 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] arm64: mediatek: Add MT8173 SoC Kconfig and defconfig Eddie Huang
2014-12-17 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Add basic support for Mediatek MT8173 SoC Arnd Bergmann

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