[kvmarm] [PATCH v2] ARM: KVM: lazy save/restore of vfp/neon

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On 25 July 2012 20:34, Antonios Motakis
<a.motakis at virtualopensystems.com> wrote:
> Hm... So if VFPv3 is not enabled in the host, disable VFP in KVM as well? We
> would have to require at least v3 from the host, otherwise we will have to
> add extra emulation to lie to the guest about the number of registers to the
> guest. Which would be a pity. But maybe depending on VFPv3 is not too much
> to ask for... I'll go ahead and give this a shot then.

Is this needed?  The Cortex-A15 and A7 are VFPv4-D32 and, from what I
can tell, required to have the FPU.

So you could build a kernel with no VFP support but there's no
hardware based reason to do so.

-- Michael


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