[LEDE-DEV] [RFC] target: armvirt: new target

[Yousong Zhou]

On 25 November 2016 at 00:52, Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
> On 2016-11-24 17:03, Yousong Zhou wrote:
>> An ARM Cortex-A machine provided by QEMU.
>>
>> Kernel drivers enabled:
>>
>>  - pl011, uart
>>  - pl031, rtc
>>  - pl061, gpio
>>  - pci-host-generic
>>  - virtio_{mmio,pci,net,blk,scsi,console,balloon}
>>  - ext4
>>  - DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE for debug purposes
>>  - neon, vfp extensions support (otherwise userland will fail with
>>    illegal instruction signal (code 0x00000004))
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> I prepared this target initially only for the purposes of proper testing KVM
>> support on Cubieboard2 as I cannot find an usable prebuilt binary on the net.
>>
>> It is posted as RFC because it will introduce a new target combination
>> cortex-a15_neon and may place an extra burden on the build system of LEDE and
>> the target users at the moment may be quite small.
> I think if we merge this, we could drop the realview target.
>
> - Felix
>

Yes, I also thought about this.  If realview target is only intended
to be used as a dev platform and not for daily use, then I expect
armvirt to provide better performance and to be made more convenient
with various virtio features, e.g. 9p-fs over virtio for file sharing
between host and guest.

                yousong