Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] hw/arm/bcm2836: Hardcode correct CPU type

[Peter Maydell]

On 13 March 2018 at 23:16, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/13/2018 06:09 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 13 March 2018 at 16:55, Andrew Baumann <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> At some point I remember seeing a patch to change this to cortex-a7. Is 
>>> there a reason we didn't make that change?
>>>
>>> (Background: the real Pi2 has an A7. When I first implemented the machine 
>>> model there was no A7 emulation in QEMU, so I used the A15 which was the 
>>> closest equivalent.)
>>
>> Yeah, we should do that. I'd forgotten about that, I think
>> things just got lost in the shuffle of having several
>> patchsets that tried to change the same things at once.
>>
>> I guess the simplest thing is to add a patch at the end of
>> the series that fixes the cpu type for bcm2836.
>
> Peter, here is the patch Andrew remembered (maybe can be applied at the
> end):
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-02/msg04286.html

Thanks for finding that. It doesn't apply after this refactoring,
but I'll send out a patch which does the equivalent thing in the
new code. In the meantime I'm going to apply this patchset to
target-arm.next since I'm going to send out a pullreq with bugfixes
for rc0 today.

thanks
-- PMM