Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH RFC 6/7] ARM64: KVM: Support heterogeneous system

[Andrew Jones]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 02:36:45PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > If QEMU wants to know
> > whether or not the host it's running on is heterogeneous, then
> > it can just query sysfs, rather than ask KVM.
> > 
> 
> Can it?  Is this information available in a reliable way from userspace?

I don't know much (anything) about it, but, afaict, yes. See
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/19/380

> > > I'm sure I missed some aspect of this discussion though.
> > 
> > Me too. As we discussed, it's probably time to try and hash out a fresh
> > design doc. It'd be good to get a clear design agreed upon before
> > returning to the patches.
> > 
> 
> Yes, it's on my list.

I'm happy to help with this, even to take a stab at the first draft. Just
let me know if you or Shannon prefer to do the draft yourselves. If you
don't have a preference, then I can start working on it pretty soon.

Thanks,
drew