On 30 September 2013 05:38, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 06:38:52PM +0100, Jonathan Austin wrote:
>> The Cortex-A7 is very similar to the Cortex-A15 and as such there is very
>> little extra infrastructure required for KVM tool to be able to create
>> A7-guests.
>>
>> This patch adds the basic support and allows booting of A7 guests on A7
>> hosts. It depends on Cortex-A7 support patches posted recently to the kvmarm
>> list.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> tools/kvm/arm/aarch32/arm-cpu.c | 9 ++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/kvm/arm/aarch32/arm-cpu.c b/tools/kvm/arm/aarch32/arm-cpu.c
>> index 8817d2a..71b98fe 100644
>> --- a/tools/kvm/arm/aarch32/arm-cpu.c
>> +++ b/tools/kvm/arm/aarch32/arm-cpu.c
>> @@ -28,8 +28,15 @@ static struct kvm_arm_target target_cortex_a15 = {
>> .init = arm_cpu__vcpu_init,
>> };
>>
>> +static struct kvm_arm_target target_cortex_a7 = {
>> + .id = KVM_ARM_TARGET_CORTEX_A7,
>> + .compatible = "arm,cortex-a7",
>> + .init = arm_cpu__vcpu_init,
>> +};
>> +
>> static int arm_cpu__core_init(struct kvm *kvm)
>> {
>> - return kvm_cpu__register_kvm_arm_target(&target_cortex_a15);
>> + return (kvm_cpu__register_kvm_arm_target(&target_cortex_a15) ||
>> + kvm_cpu__register_kvm_arm_target(&target_cortex_a7));
>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
>
> However, we should hold off applying this to kvmtool until
> KVM_ARM_TARGET_CORTEX_A7 is defined in the kernel sources which it is
> shipped with. Do you have an ETA on this change going into the mainline
> kernel?
>
I plan to merge during next merge window.
-Christoffer
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