Re: [PATCH v16 43/99] target/arm: move a15 cpu model away from the TCG-only models

[Alex Bennée]

Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:

> On 6/4/21 8:52 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> From: Claudio Fontana<cfontana@suse.de>
>> Cortex-A15 is the only ARM cpu class we need in KVM too.
>> We will be able to move it to tcg/ once the board code and
>> configurations
>> are fixed.
>> Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana<cfontana@suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée<alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   target/arm/cpu32.h   |  4 +++
>>   target/arm/cpu32.c   | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   target/arm/cpu_tcg.c | 67 ----------------------------------------
>>   3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
>
> I don't follow this one.  Why would kvm, which is 64-bit only, require
> a 32-bit only cpu?
>
> I guess I can accept that our board configurations are old and
> fragile, and I realize there are already 99 bottles of beer on^W^W^W^W
> patches here, but what needs to happen to fix this properly?

I'll drop this and fix whatever we need to. 32 bit ARM KVM is listed in
removed-features so I think we are good.

>
> I guess I can give it an
> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
>
> if it helps us move forward.
>
>
> r~


-- 
Alex Bennée