Re: ARM KVM GICv3 Support

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 04:03:13PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 15 December 2015 at 14:12, Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:41:02AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >>
> >> On 15 December 2015 at 09:36, Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We do pass some options, for example, you can restrict the GIC to v2:
> >>> https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFeatures
> >>>
> >>> That could be modified to work for your purpose IIUC, right?
> >>
> >>
> >> What does that option do to the QEMU command line? The documentation
> >> doesn't seem to say.
> >>
> >
> > It appends gic-version= to the machine option, if bunch of conditions
> > are met -- it has to be ARM machine, it has to be something else than
> > version 2, and so on, more details are visible in the code and I won't
> > cover them here.  I hope that's understandable.
> 
> OK. So it should be sufficient just to have
>   <gic version='host'/>
> which will then provide whatever VGIC the host machine can do with
> hardware acceleration.

This is probably good for guests that happy with both. Guests that
need/want a specific choice will put their integer there, and then
we need a way to do a capabilities check before launching that guest
on an arbitrary host.

drew

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