On 16 May 2012 05:05, Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org> wrote: > Realview-PB-A8 kernel boots fine on QEMU Emulator. The kernel gets alignment > faults only when we try to use KVM ARM. TCG QEMU doesn't emulate alignment faults, so you'll never see them. (This is really a bug in TCG QEMU.) > Although, I did not see this issue with VExpress-A9 kernel, so have > mentioned it explicitly in my patch. Making this change CPUID specific would > be even more correct way of doing it. What I mean is that we should be checking CPUID and saying "no, you cannot emulate an A8 or A9 with KVM". -- PMM