[PATCH] arm64: KVM: Enable support for Cortex-A72

[Shannon Zhao]

On 2016/8/24 16:57, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 24/08/16 08:21, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>> In order to allow KVM to run on Cortex-A72 physical cpus, enable KVM
>> support for Cortex-A72.
> 
> Do we really need this change ? Given that A72 is using the generic_v8
> table,
> it will automatically be supported via the GENERIC_V8 target. That was
> added
> just for this purpose. The pre-existing targets were preserved so that
> we don't break the ABI for older user space.
> 
Yes, this works for qemu with "-cpu host". But if it specifies the cpu
type with "-cpu cortex-a72". It will fail without this patch.

The corresponding qemu patches could be found at [1].
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03653.html

Thanks,
-- 
Shannon