From: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] hw/arm: add Fixed Virtual Platform VE support
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:18:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5511FEF0.30403@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-S=zCcsnHfhmmW_GZU8gWh_VEzHLuy6Hz1OU0MyqVZ2A@mail.gmail.com>
On 24.03.2015 17:13, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 March 2015 at 23:55, Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> These patches add support for ARM Fixed Virtual Platform Versatile Express
>> board. ARM VFP VE is similar to hardware Versatile Express boards. So these
>> changes rely largely on existing QEMU VE support code. First two patches are
>> prerequisites for the final patch which adds FVP VE board support itself.
>>
>> The changes were tested by running a Linux system in SMP mode using
>> 'arch/arm64/boot/dts/rtsm_ve-aemv8a.dts' from Linux kernel source code for
>> generating device tree blob.
> ...so what's the motivation for our attempting to model
> somebody else's board model? What do we gain over our
> existing VE hardware model?
>
> -- PMM
This model uses spin table boot method. So it enables SMP on AArch64 in
TCG mode.
Best regards,
Sergey.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-25 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-24 23:55 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] hw/arm: add Fixed Virtual Platform VE support Sergey Fedorov
2015-03-24 23:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] hw/arm/boot: add secondary loader for AArch64 Sergey Fedorov
2015-03-24 23:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] hw/arm/vexpress: introduce VEDBoardInfo::smp_bootreg_addr Sergey Fedorov
2015-03-24 23:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] hw/arm/vexpress: add FVP VE board support Sergey Fedorov
2015-03-25 0:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] hw/arm: add Fixed Virtual Platform VE support Peter Maydell
2015-03-25 0:18 ` Sergey Fedorov [this message]
2015-03-25 0:23 ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-25 0:31 ` Sergey Fedorov
2015-03-25 0:48 ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-25 1:30 ` Sergey Fedorov
2015-03-25 1:43 ` Sergey Fedorov
2015-03-25 11:06 ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-25 17:52 ` Sergey Fedorov
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