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

[Richard Henderson]

On 3/3/21 10:20 AM, 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?

The goal is for qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64 to be as compatible as 
possible.  That's why the default is the same for both.


r~