Re: [Qemu-devel] [Android-virt] plans for QEMU support for KVM on ARM

[Christoffer Dall]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 24 November 2011 23:06, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 24 November 2011 22:02, Christoffer Dall <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Pretty high up my todo list was rebasing your kvm patch on to
>>>> master / qemu-linaro (the two are more or less the same for this
>>>> purpose).
>>>
>>> if you could take charge on that it would be awesome from my point of
>>> view. I will send you a (slightly) cleaned up patch that you can use
>>> or throw away.
>>
>> That would be good, thanks. I'll try to get that rebasing started
>> tomorrow and done early next week.
>
> I've now done this rebasing, fixed a few other minor issues and
> put the resulting patches into qemu-linaro as "experimental work
> in progress":
>
> http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=qemu/qemu-linaro.git;a=summary
>
> Note that I've defaulted KVM to off for ARM hosts (for the benefit
> of other users of qemu-linaro who don't care about KVM yet), so run
> configure with "--enable-kvm".
>
> A note about the branches here: the 'rebasing' branch is the patch
> stack, and (as the name suggests) it rebases on qemu upstream
> fairly frequently. 'master' is a never-rebases branch which always
> has identical contents to the head of 'rebasing' (generated by
> stg publish). Pick whichever branch suits your use case best.
>
> Instructions on how to cross-compile it are here:
> https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/A15OnFastModels
> (if you're moving from Christoffer's qemu tree these are worth
> checking, because QEMU now requires glib/gthread so a cross
> compile setup that could compile Christoffer's tree won't
> necessarily build this one.)


this is great, thanks!

looking forward to trying it out later this week.