Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add virt-v3 machine that uses GIC-500

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:15:46PM +0300, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>  Hello!
> 
> > We are not. Support for GICv2 vs v3 should be dealt with
> > by suitable machine properties
> 
>  I don't remember whether i clearly wrote about it... First i added a
> property, like -machine virt,gicv3=on. But then i decided to stick back
> to different machine name because libvirt does not have mechanism for
> passing machine options.

Actually there was a enhancement done to libvirt a week or two ago to
support enablment of the GIC and choice of versions.

<domain type='kvm'>
  ....
  <features>
     <gic version='3'/>
  </features>
  ...
</domain>

commit 921c52b0db3ac898d5cc4eda19fb861ad58d9a9e
Author: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 27 14:03:19 2015 +0200

    Introduce GIC feature
    
    Some platforms, like aarch64, don't have APIC but GIC. So there's
    no reason to have <apic/> feature turned on. However, we are
    still missing <gic/> feature. This commit introduces the feature
    to XML parser and formatter, adds documentation and updates RNG
    schema.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

Regards,
Daniel
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