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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/2] Add Arm SBSA Reference Machine
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/2] Add Arm SBSA Reference Machine |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:18:53 +0100 |
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 05:05, Hongbo Zhang <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> For the Aarch64, there is one machine 'virt', it is primarily meant to
> run on KVM and execute virtualization workloads, but we need an
> environment as faithful as possible to physical hardware, to support
> firmware and OS development for pysical Aarch64 machines.
>
> This machine comes with:
> - Re-designed memory map.
> - CPU cortex-a57.
> - EL2 and EL3 enabled.
> - GIC version 3.
> - System bus AHCI controller.
> - System bus XHCI controller.
> - CDROM and hard disc on AHCI bus.
> - E1000E ethernet card on PCIE bus.
> - VGA display adaptor on PCIE bus.
> - Only minimal device tree nodes.
> And without:
> - virtio deivces.
> - fw_cfg device.
> - ACPI tables.
I've had a look through these patches -- my comments are all
pretty minor. There are a few places where I don't really know
the right answer and have asked other people to weigh in on
whether changes (proposed or recent) for the virt board should
be applied here too.
thanks
-- PMM