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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Add a valid_cpu_types property
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Alistair Francis |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Add a valid_cpu_types property |
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Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:29:53 -0700 |
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Igor Mammedov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:07:23 -0700
> Alistair Francis <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> There are numorous QEMU machines that only have a single or a handful of
>> valid CPU options. To simplyfy the management of specificying which CPU
>> is/isn't valid let's create a property that can be set in the machine
>> init. We can then check to see if the user supplied CPU is in that list
>> or not.
>>
>> I have added the valid_cpu_types for some ARM machines only at the
>> moment.
> do you plan to complete work for other boards as well
> so that new interface would replace current opencoded
> checks across the tree?
Ideally yes, it's just a matter of finding time to dig through the
other architectures.
Thanks,
Alistair
>
>
>> Here is what specifying the CPUs looks like now:
>>
>> $ aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M netduino2 -kernel ./u-boot.elf
>> -nographic -cpu "cortex-m3" -S
>> QEMU 2.10.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>> (qemu) info cpus
>> * CPU #0: thread_id=24175
>> (qemu) q
>>
>> $ aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M netduino2 -kernel ./u-boot.elf
>> -nographic -cpu "cortex-m4" -S
>> QEMU 2.10.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>> (qemu) q
>>
>> $ aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M netduino2 -kernel ./u-boot.elf
>> -nographic -cpu "cortex-m5" -S
>> qemu-system-aarch64: unable to find CPU model 'cortex-m5'
>>
>> $ aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M netduino2 -kernel ./u-boot.elf
>> -nographic -cpu "cortex-a9" -S
>> qemu-system-aarch64: Invalid CPU type: cortex-a9-arm-cpu
>> The valid types are: cortex-m3-arm-cpu, cortex-m4-arm-cpu
>>
>> V2:
>> - Rebase
>> - Reorder patches
>> - Add a Raspberry Pi 2 CPU fix
>> V1:
>> - Small fixes to prepare a series instead of RFC
>> - Add commit messages for the commits
>> - Expand the machine support to ARM machines
>> RFC v2:
>> - Rebase on Igor's work
>> - Use more QEMUisms inside the code
>> - List the supported machines in a NULL terminated array
>>
>> Alistair Francis (5):
>> netduino2: Specify the valid CPUs
>> bcm2836: Use the Cortex-A7 instead of Cortex-A15
>> raspi: Specify the valid CPUs
>> xlnx-zcu102: Specify the valid CPUs
>> xilinx_zynq: : Specify the valid CPUs
>>
>> hw/arm/bcm2836.c | 2 +-
>> hw/arm/netduino2.c | 10 +++++++++-
>> hw/arm/raspi.c | 7 +++++++
>> hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c | 6 ++++++
>> hw/arm/xlnx-zcu102.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>> 5 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Add a valid_cpu_types property, Alistair Francis, 2017/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/5] raspi: Specify the valid CPUs, Alistair Francis, 2017/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] bcm2836: Use the Cortex-A7 instead of Cortex-A15, Alistair Francis, 2017/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] netduino2: Specify the valid CPUs, Alistair Francis, 2017/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] xilinx_zynq: : Specify the valid CPUs, Alistair Francis, 2017/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] xlnx-zcu102: Specify the valid CPUs, Alistair Francis, 2017/10/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Add a valid_cpu_types property, Igor Mammedov, 2017/10/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Add a valid_cpu_types property,
Alistair Francis <=