From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YapU3-0007vt-Kn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:52:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YapTz-0001FG-Bk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:52:51 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22e]:36235) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YapTz-0001F9-3q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:52:47 -0400 Received: by padcy3 with SMTP id cy3so36014649pad.3 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5512F5EA.4090407@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:52:42 -0700 From: Sergey Fedorov MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1427241331-11403-1-git-send-email-serge.fdrv@gmail.com> <5511FEF0.30403@gmail.com> <551201C7.6030500@gmail.com> <55120FA6.8030605@gmail.com> <551212CF.8050602@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] hw/arm: add Fixed Virtual Platform VE support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers On 25.03.2015 04:06, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 March 2015 at 01:43, Sergey Fedorov wrote: >> On 24.03.2015 18:30, Sergey Fedorov wrote: >>> So if I understand you correctly, it would be suitable to implement a >>> model like Juno ARM Development Platform in order to get AArch64 VE >>> model with SMP support in system mode? >> As you can guess, my objective is to get a model based on Versatile >> Express with Cortex-A57 CPU which could be used to run an SMP Linux >> kernel on system mode QEMU. So I decided to use the same model as ARM >> FastModels provides. I could get ARMv8-A Foundation Platform model as >> well, but it also uses spin table boot method. Seems there's no much choice. > Basically I'd rather we modelled some bit of real hardware. > I don't see the point in providing a model of somebody > else's model -- if you don't care about matching real > hardware we have 'virt' already. So I don't really want > to model either the Foundation Platform or the AEM, > unless there's a really compelling reason to do that. > > thanks > -- PMM I understand your view. Unfortunately, I'm not going to implement any other model so far. I'd rather focus on EL2 implementation for AArch64. But maybe someone will find useful these patches :) Thanks, Sergey