Development tree for Cortex-A15?

Jemma Jones jemmajones81 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu May 3 09:35:55 EDT 2012


> Subject: Re: Development tree for Cortex-A15?

> 
> On Thu, 3 May 2012 12:56:39 +0100 (BST), Jemma Jones
> <jemmajones81 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jemma,
> 
>>  Hi, I'm looking for the latest KVM-enabled developer version of the
> Linux
>>  kernel for ARM on the Versatile Express board with the Cortex-A15 CPU. 
> 
> It really depends on what you call "developer version". As far as I 
> know,
> there is nothing but dev trees around ;-).
> 
>>  I have pulled from these two trees
>> 
>> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-arm-arch.git;a=summary
>> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git;a=summary
>> 
>>  But it seems the 2nd one is more up-to-date with KVM enablement while it
>>  doesn't have any support for the A15 VE board? And the 1st one 
> doesn't
>>  support KVM on ARM with the ARMv7 virtualization extensions?
> 
> First, my tree (the second one) does support the A15. Otherwise I'd have a
> hard time testing my own code... Which branch are you looking at? Please
> note that the KVM branches in this tree are under heavy development, and
> are only suitable if you don't mind frequent rebases and regular breakage
> due to bleeding edge code.

I'm currently on kvm-arm-v7-ael, because it looked like the most up-to-date one. Which one should I be using for Cortex-A15 support?

Thanks.




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