On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 12:09 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 16 February 2016 at 12:05, Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The idea is to add this information to domain capabilities, which > > already have virtualization type, architecture and machine type as > > inputs. > > > > Since GIC is only available for the virt machine type on ARM hosts, > > and the GIC versions might be limited by using TCG instead of KVM, > > it seems like it would fit nicely... > > The GIC is available for more than just "virt". It's just that > at the moment "virt" is the only machine type which lets you > pick which GIC version you want, and so the only machine type > with that machine property. (For instance vexpress-a15 > is always GICv2, since the hardware we're modelling there is > always GICv2.) > > Other board models in future might support a choice of GIC > versions. (The obvious possibility would be the Android > 'ranchu' board if that is ever upstreamed.) Yeah, I didn't express myself properly: I meant to say that the ability to pick a GIC version is limited to the virt machine type so far. Sorry about that :) Cheers. -- Andrea Bolognani Software Engineer - Virtualization Team -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list