Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] hw/arm: add Fixed Virtual Platform VE support

[Sergey Fedorov]

On 24.03.2015 17:48, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 25 March 2015 at 00:31, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 24.03.2015 17:23, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 25 March 2015 at 00:18, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> This model uses spin table boot method.
>>> Yes, I noticed, that's a strong reason why I don't want to
>>> add it if we can avoid it :-)
>> Why not? :-)
> Because PSCI is the expected method for SMP support for
> new 64-bit boards (as I understand it) and so I'd rather
> not add a lot of legacy spintable code unless we really
> need the board support for some other reason.
>
>>> We already support SMP on AArch64 in TCG mode using PSCI.
>> Ah, seems I missed this. But isn't it supported only in 'virt'
>> board?
> Yes, at the moment. But then 'virt' is our only 64 bit board...

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?