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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add arm SBSA reference machine
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To: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@linaro.org>
Cc: =?UTF-8?B?QWxleCBCZW5uw6ll?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>, Radoslaw Biernacki <radoslaw.biernacki@linaro.org>

On 19 October 2018 at 09:55, Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@linaro.org> wrote:
> For the Aarch64, there is one machine 'virt', it is primarily meant to
> run on KVM and execute virtualization workloads, but we need an
> environment as faithful as possible to physical hardware,  to support
> firmware and OS development for pysical Aarch64 machines.
>
> See the patch commit comments for the features description.
>
> V4 changes:
>  - rebased to v3.0.0
>  - removed timer, uart, rtc, *hci device tree nodes
>    (others were removerd in v3)
>  - other minore codes clean up, mainly unsed header files, comments etc.
>
> V3 changes:
>  - rename the platform 'sbsa-ref'
>  - move all the codes to a separate file sbsa-ref.c
>  - remove paravirtualized fw_cfg device
>  - do not supply ACPI tables, since firmware will do it
>  - supply only necessary DT nodes
>  - and other minor code clean up

Hi; just a note that this series isn't going to make it into
the 3.1 release. It is still on my to-review queue for 4.0,
but I may not get to reviewing it for a little bit while I
deal with for-3.1 work.

thanks
-- PMM