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

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 March 2015 at 01:43, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 24.03.2015 18:30, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
>> So if I understand you correctly, it would be suitable to implement a
>> model like Juno ARM Development Platform in order to get AArch64 VE
>> model with SMP support in system mode?
>
> As you can guess, my objective is to get a model based on Versatile
> Express with Cortex-A57 CPU which could be used to run an SMP Linux
> kernel on system mode QEMU. So I decided to use the same model as ARM
> FastModels provides. I could get ARMv8-A Foundation Platform model as
> well, but it also uses spin table boot method. Seems there's no much choice.

Basically I'd rather we modelled some bit of real hardware.
I don't see the point in providing a model of somebody
else's model -- if you don't care about matching real
hardware we have 'virt' already. So I don't really want
to model either the Foundation Platform or the AEM,
unless there's a really compelling reason to do that.

thanks
-- PMM