On 2016/8/24 16:57, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > On 24/08/16 08:21, Shannon Zhao wrote: >> In order to allow KVM to run on Cortex-A72 physical cpus, enable KVM >> support for Cortex-A72. > > Do we really need this change ? Given that A72 is using the generic_v8 > table, > it will automatically be supported via the GENERIC_V8 target. That was > added > just for this purpose. The pre-existing targets were preserved so that > we don't break the ABI for older user space. > Yes, this works for qemu with "-cpu host". But if it specifies the cpu type with "-cpu cortex-a72". It will fail without this patch. The corresponding qemu patches could be found at [1]. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03653.html Thanks, -- Shannon _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
