[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6][RFC] AArch64 support for Versatile Express using KVM

[Mian M. Hamayun]

This patch series implements KVM support in QEMU for the ARMv8 Cortex 
A57 CPU.
It depends on the previously submitted AArch64 Preparation Patchset V4, 
and uses
as a base, the existing Versatile Express machine model and the already
available KVM in-kernel GIC support.

As a reference, KVM Tool and the AArch64 bootwrapper were used, as well as
public documentation from ARM. The following work has been tested with SMP
capabilities, under ARMv8 Fast Models and the Foundation model (Open 
Embedded
userspace with an emulated MMC).

The work has been sponsored by Huawei, and developed in collaboration with
Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, European Research Center Munich (ERC).
A working tree of this implementation is available on the "kvm-aarch64" 
branch
of the following github repository.

https://github.com/virtualopensystems/qemu.git

Summary of Patches:

[PATCH 1/6] Added aarch64 configure support and default
[PATCH 2/6] Added KVM Headers from KVM Tool
[PATCH 3/6] Added Aarch64 CPU Initialization, Get and Put Registers
[PATCH 4/6] Added the Versatile Express Machine Model for A57
[PATCH 5/6] Added Boot Support for Aarch64 Processor.
[PATCH 6/6] Added SMP for Aarch64 Processors.