Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] target-arm: Support AArch64 KVM

[Peter Maydell]

Last call for review/testing/comments on this patchset:
I'm planning to do a target-arm pullreq early next week
which will include this patchset.

thanks
-- PMM

On 5 December 2013 15:23, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> Slightly over-eager ping for code review and/or testing, since the A64
> patches are going to sit on top of this and they're starting to pile up :-)
> (Also noticed I forgot to cc Mian; apologies.)
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>
> On 28 November 2013 13:33, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This patchset adds support for basic AArch64 KVM VM control.  It sits
>> on top of the mach-virt + cpu-host patchset I sent out last week.
>> The core of these patches is the work done by Mian M. Hamayun; I've
>> just taken that, refactored it a bit to sit on top of the
>> mach-virt+cpu-host patchset instead af defining an 'a57' cpu, and
>> made some minor bugfixes as part of the code review I did in the
>> process.
>>
>> (Mian: my apologies for not looking at your last patch series sooner.
>> This actually ended up in my generating extra work for myself since
>> if I'd been a bit quicker about that we could have dealt with more of
>> this in code review rather than my fixing things up. I'll try to do
>> better next time around.)
>>
>> This patch series supports:
>>  * 64 bit KVM VM control
>>  * SMP and UP
>>  * PSCI boot of secondary CPUs
>> It doesn't support:
>>  * migration
>>  * reset (partly because there's no way to reset a mach-virt system yet)
>>  * anything except "-cpu host"
>>  * debugging the VM via qemu gdbstub
>>  * running 32 bit VMs on a 64 bit system
>>    [Mian's patchset includes support for that but I have left it out
>>    for the moment because it needs more thought about UI and so on]
>>
>> You can find this patchset plus the mach-virt/cpu-host one at
>>  git://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm.git mach-virt-64
>> https://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/pmaydell/qemu-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mach-virt-64