Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] virt-acpi-build: add always-on property for timer

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 January 2016 at 12:54, Andrew Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch is the ACPI equivalent of "hw/arm/virt: Add always-on
> property to the virt board timer". The timer is always on, and
> thus setting this informs Linux that it may switch off the periodic
> timer. Switching off the periodic timer substantially reduces the
> number of interrupts the host needs to inject.
>
> Testing note: AArch64 guests (the only ones currently booting with
> ACPI) do not actually need this patch to determine it can turn the
> periodic timer off. I therefore used a hacked guest kernel to ensure
> this patch works as the equivalent DT patch does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>



Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.

-- PMM