[kvmarm] [RFC PATCH] ARM: KVM: Switch HVBAR setting to be HVC-based

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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 26 July 2012 18:11, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>> Instead of relying on SMC calls to setup HVBAR, introduce a new
>> HVC-based API. This of course requires a hypervisor stub to be
>> installed already. At the moment, this is implemented as part of the
>> boot wrapper, but will be moved to the kernel itself when it actually
>> understands being booted in HYP mode.
>>
>> The kernel now uses "hvc #0xff", with r0 containing the pointer to
>> the new vectors.
>
> This will still go bang if you try to boot a KVM-enabled kernel
> on a non-virtualization capable system (eg as the qemu guest),
> right?
>
yes :)

-Christoffer


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