On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 21:57 -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Nak. The fact that one of the CPUs seem to hang is a sure sign that > > something is severely broken, and you definitely want to fix that issue, > > instead of blindly ignoring it. > > > > Additionally, it seems you're just papering over the issue. You should > > be able to exclude the A7 processors, but not completely deny KVM from > > running on the hardware. > > > Marc, I disagree with this nak. If the current kernel breaks boot on a > Big.Little system, we need to take care of that first, and the > proposed patch is a quick way to do so, and it does not stand in the > way of introducing proper Big.Little support in any way, which I'm > sure is going to open up a lot of other interesting questions. > > I'm going to take this one. Since this problem will cause the 3.9 kernel to hang then a workaround like this should go in. There isn't enough time to do a proper fix for 3.9, and even if it could be done I think it would be too intrusive to get merged this late. -Geoff _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/kvmarm
