Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm: add Cortex A7 CPU parameters

[Andrey Yurovsky]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29 August 2016 at 18:36, Andrey Yurovsky <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Andrey Yurovsky <address@hidden>
>>
>> Add the "cortex-a7" CPU with features and registers matching the Cortex-A7
>> MPCore Technical Reference Manual and the Cortex-A7 Floating-Point Unit
>> Technical Reference Manual. The A7 is very similar to the A15.
>>
>> Tested via the "virt" machine.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <address@hidden>
>
> No particular objection, but what's your use case for this
> where just using cortex-a15 wouldn't do?

I'm working on i.MX7 emulation and wanted to add the A7 as a known CPU
before introducing a machine that would have an A7 on it, otherwise
it's very similar to the A15 though the registers in this patch will
reflect some feature differences.

> (Will review more carefully later.)

Thank you.