Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] hw/arm/raspi: Restrict BCM2835 / BCM2836 SoC to TCG

[Peter Maydell]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at 15:14, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
>
> Peter mentioned [*] KVM only support ARMv8 targets. Restrict the
> non-ARMv8 machines to TCG.
>
> While this is still not enough to boot a raspi3 image using KVM:
>
>   $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M raspi3b -enable-kvm ...
>   qemu-system-aarch64: ../../softmmu/physmem.c:745: cpu_address_space_init: A=
> ssertion `asidx =3D=3D 0 || !kvm_enabled()' failed.
>   Aborted (core dumped)

Side note: this assertion isn't specific to the raspi3b -- it's
caused because we don't correctly screen out "tried to use KVM
on a CPU type with EL3 enabled", which should cause an error
but instead gets far enough through CPU init to hit this assertion.

thanks
-- PMM