Re: [PATCH 3/3] hw/arm/virt: Delete EL3 error checksnow provided in CPU realize

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 8/16/21 3:58 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Now that the CPU realize function will fail cleanly if we ask for EL3
> when KVM is enabled, we don't need to check for errors explicitly in
> the virt board code. The reported message is slightly different;
> it is now:
>   qemu-system-aarch64: Cannot enable KVM when guest CPU has EL3 enabled
> instead of:
>   qemu-system-aarch64: mach-virt: KVM does not support Security extensions
> 
> We don't delete the MTE check because there the logic is more
> complex; deleting the check would work but makes the error message
> less helpful, as it would read:
>   qemu-system-aarch64: MTE requested, but not supported by the guest CPU
> instead of:
>   qemu-system-aarch64: mach-virt: KVM does not support providing MTE to the 
> guest CPU
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
>  hw/arm/virt.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>