Development tree for Cortex-A15?
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu May 3 10:56:35 EDT 2012
On Thu, 3 May 2012 14:35:55 +0100 (BST), Jemma Jones
<jemmajones81 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> 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?
That branch is good enough, if you have a bleeding edge QEMU. Note that
the VE A15 support in that tree is DT only. I'm working on a v3.4 based one
at the moment, but that's not completely ready yet.
M.
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