Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] hw/arm: add Fixed Virtual Platform VE support

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 March 2015 at 00:31, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 24.03.2015 17:23, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 25 March 2015 at 00:18, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> This model uses spin table boot method.
>> Yes, I noticed, that's a strong reason why I don't want to
>> add it if we can avoid it :-)
>
> Why not? :-)

Because PSCI is the expected method for SMP support for
new 64-bit boards (as I understand it) and so I'd rather
not add a lot of legacy spintable code unless we really
need the board support for some other reason.

>> We already support SMP on AArch64 in TCG mode using PSCI.
>
> Ah, seems I missed this. But isn't it supported only in 'virt'
> board?

Yes, at the moment. But then 'virt' is our only 64 bit board...

-- PMM