Re: [PATCH v16 43/99] target/arm: move a15 cpu model away from the TCG-only models

[Richard Henderson]

On 6/4/21 8:52 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> From: Claudio Fontana<cfontana@suse.de>
>
> Cortex-A15 is the only ARM cpu class we need in KVM too.
>
> We will be able to move it to tcg/ once the board code and configurations
> are fixed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana<cfontana@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée<alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   target/arm/cpu32.h   |  4 +++
>   target/arm/cpu32.c   | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   target/arm/cpu_tcg.c | 67 ----------------------------------------
>   3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

I don't follow this one.  Why would kvm, which is 64-bit only, require a 32-bit 
only cpu?

I guess I can accept that our board configurations are old and fragile, and I 
realize there are already 99 bottles of beer on^W^W^W^W patches here, but what 
needs to happen to fix this properly?

I guess I can give it an
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

if it helps us move forward.


r~