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Re: [Qemu-riscv] RISC-V: qemu should provide different "model" strings i
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Alistair Francis |
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Re: [Qemu-riscv] RISC-V: qemu should provide different "model" strings in DT for RV64 and RV32 |
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Mon, 6 May 2019 14:33:29 +0000 |
On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 23:03 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> Hello,
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> while working on RISC-V support for the Debian flash-kernel package
> I have stumbled over a potential problem with the "model" string
> that qemu sets in the DT that it generates for the "virt" machine,
> namely "riscv-virtio,qemu".
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> Some tools, among them flash-kernel, use the "model" string to
> determine on which specific type of hardware they are running and
> perform corresponding hardware-specific actions. It looks like
> qemu uses the same model string for both RV64 and RV32, which
> makes it impossible to differentiate between the two. I would
> therefore like to propose to make the model-string
> XLEN-dependent, i.e. "riscv64-virtio,qemu" respectively
> "riscv32-virtio,qemu".
This sounds fine to me.
Is there anything that already relies on the "riscv-virtio,qemu" compat
string? Maybe we can keep that and add a 32/64 bit one so we don't
break anything that is already working.
Alistair
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> Regards,
> Karsten