Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH target-arm v4 02/16] target-arm: cpu64: Factor out ARM cortex init

[Peter Crosthwaite]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Peter Maydell
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 23 March 2015 at 11:05, Peter Crosthwaite
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In preparation for support for Cortex a53. Use "axx" to describe the
>> shareable features. Some of the CP15 registers (such as ACTLR) are
>> specific to implementation, but we currently just RAZ them so continue
>> with that as the policy for all cortex A processors under a shared
>> definition.
>>
>> The cache sizes and geometeries, the L1 I-cache policy and the physical
>> address range differ between A53 and A57 so those particulars are left
>> as A57 specific. The rest are moved to the generalisation.
>
> I'm not a huge fan of this as it seems unlikely that every CPU
> with a "Cortex-Axx" is going to look so similar to the A57.
>
> Call the reginfo table cortex_a53_a57_cp_reginfo if you want
> to share it, but I would leave the initfns completely separate
> personally.
>

Both fixed.

Regards,
Peter

> -- PMM
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