[PATCH] arm64: KVM: Enable minimalistic support for Thunder

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Mon Jun 29 10:11:13 PDT 2015


On 29/06/15 18:06, Chalamarla, Tirumalesh wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 29, 2015, at 1:53 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 26/06/15 20:51, Tirumalesh Chalamarla wrote:
>>> In order to allow KVM to run on Thunder implementations, add the
>>> minimal support required.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla at caviumnetworks.com>
>>
>> CCing the KVM/ARM maintainers should be the first course of action.
>>
> thanks. 
> 
>> Also, you may want to try Suzuki's patch instead:
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg117703.html
>>
> will try with this.
> 
>> Constantly adding new CPUs without providing any insight as to how they
>> should be emulated only brings churn, and not much benefit.
>>
> we are not planning(at this point) to emulate Thunder with QEMU/others.   

Fair enough. If cross-cpu VM migration is none of your concern, then
Suzuki's patch should be enough.

Thanks,

	M.
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