Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] kvm tools: add support for ARMv7 processors

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Christoffer,
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:18:57PM +0000, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > This patch series adds support for ARMv7 processors (Cortex-A15) to kvm
>> > tool. The majority of the series consists of small changes in
>> > preparation for ARM support, which is added by the final patch. I can
>> > try to split this up further, but given that there is no current support
>> > for ARM, the sub-patches wouldn't be especially meaningful.
>>
>> Very cool, looking forward to trying it out!
>
> Great -- please let me know if/when it explodes...
>
>> Would have been very nice if you had sent it to
>> kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as well.
>
> Sorry, will include that on CC for future submissions (obviously didn't
> appear in the get_maintainers.pl output).
>
>> >
>> > To boot a guest, you will need:
>> >
>> >   - A Cortex-A15 platform with a kvm-capable bootloader
>> >   - The latest kvm-arm patches:
>> >     git://github.com/virtualopensystems/linux-kvm-arm.git kvm-arm-master
>> >   - A guest kernel configured for our virtual target:
>> >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/kvmtool.git kvm/mach-virt
>>
>> newest as in v4 from this weekend or before the weekend? There were
>> some (hopefully final) API breakage in there.
>
> That's the GIC device ID type change right? I think that just requires a
> recompile on my part, with no changes to the code. I've been working off
> kvm-arm-master and updating fairly frequently (current HEAD a73616f165).
>

between v3 and v4 we also changed the struct kvm_regs to use pt_regs,
but that's all included in a73616f165.

thanks
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