[PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Cortex-A7 support and fixes
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Tue Oct 15 20:25:15 EDT 2013
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:49:25PM +0100, Jonathan Austin wrote:
> This series adds support for using KVM on ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs. As the Cortex-A7
> is architecturally identical to the A15 there is not a huge amount of code
> required, however there are a number of fixups necessary to core KVM code that
> testing on A7 has revealed.
>
> I'm open to comments about other ways to share the functionality between A7/A15
> while still maintaining the architectural/implementation defined split that
> existed between coproc.c and coproc_a15.c - The approach in this series avoids
> adding '3 levels' of abstraction and feels like a good compromise that doesn't
> require duplication of a lot of the A15 code for A7 but still permits
> implementation differences to be fully expressed in coproc_X files.
>
> This patch series has been developed/tested on TC2 with the A15 cluster held in
> reset.
>
Tested on Cubieboard2 and applied to kvm-arm-next.
Thanks,
-Christoffer
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