Re: [RFC v1 00/38] arm cleanup experiment for kvm-only build

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 3/3/21 7:20 PM, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> On 3/3/21 7:17 PM, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>> On 3/3/21 7:09 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 17:57, Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de> wrote:
>>>> One thing I noticed is that tests try to run qemu-system-aarch64 with 
>>>> accel "qtest" and machine "virt",
>>>> and the thing tries to create a cortex-a15 cpu model for some unknown 
>>>> reason.
>>>
>>> That is expected. The default CPU type for 'virt' is cortex-a15; if you want
>>> something else then you need to specify the -cpu option.
>>>
>>> -- PMM
>>>
>>
>> I see, I'll experiment a bit thanks.
>>
>> I assume changing the default to "max" is out of the question,
>> and we should instead feed the -cpu option from the tests?
>>
> 
> And since we are on topic, should the qemu-system-aarch64 still contain the 
> cortex-a15 cpu model for some reason?

If it is available, certainly. Else no :)