Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] target/riscv/kvm: fix timebase-frequency when using KVM acceleration

[Alistair Francis]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 2:41 AM Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>
> 27.04.2024 18:17, Andrew Jones :
> > I wrote instructions [2] for how to cross-compile without a full 
> > environment/container once. It might be better for quick, local testing.
> >
> > [2] 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-riscv/20230726120706.335340-2-ajones@ventanamicro.com/
>
> I just extracted a few packages from debian riscv64 (like libglib & deps)
> in a separate dir and pointed various tools (pkgconf, gcc -I, gcc -L) to
> that dir.
>
>
> >> 49c211ffca00fdf7c is also needed.  So it's 3 so far, still not compile-
> >> tested.  Anything else?
> >
> > Those 3, the first of the series [1], are good. Not sure why it's still not 
> > compiling.
>
> Yes, I picked up these 3 I mentioned, in addition to the problematic one
> which is part of 8.2.3.  Once I had the build environment, I tried compiling
> it, and it builds fine.  I wrote it is not compile-TESTED, not as it fails
> to compile.
>
> Also, I tried to build qemu on a real riscv64 hardware (on a debian 
> porterbox),
> -- it built fine (with the 3 mentioned changes applied) and is now running
> tests, but it looks like it will be fine too.
>
> > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-12/msg01132.html
>
> So yes, I'm picking these additional 3 from this set, - the ones which
> I already mentioned.

Thanks so much for testing that.

I'm not really sure what to do about the RISC-V host builds. I keep
expecting distros to ship better RISC-V support, but still they don't
seem to have it

Alistair

>
> Thanks,
>
> /mjt
>
>
> --
> GPG Key transition (from rsa2048 to rsa4096) since 2024-04-24.
> New key: rsa4096/61AD3D98ECDF2C8E  9D8B E14E 3F2A 9DD7 9199  28F1 61AD 3D98 
> ECDF 2C8E
> Old key: rsa2048/457CE0A0804465C5  6EE1 95D1 886E 8FFB 810D  4324 457C E0A0 
> 8044 65C5
> Transition statement: http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/gpg-transition-2024.txt
>
>