On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 08:19:58PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 07.10.2015 02:22, dann frazier wrote: > > Package: qemu-system-arm > > Version: 1:2.4+dfsg-3 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > ARM systems with GICv3 support (such as Cavium Thunder) need a QEMU > > that supports vGICv3 to work with KVM. This feature has landed > > upstream recently - attached is a backport that applies to Debian. > > Hm. Should we really add this to debian now? > ARM vGICv3 should be in 2.5 version of qemu, which is expected > to come out of the door at Dec-10 this year > (see http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5).
I don't have a strong opinion on whether or not Debian takes this ahead of 2.5. I was doing the backport for Ubuntu, and wanted to make it available for Debian if desired. > Also, the patchset is still on review currently, as far as I can see. > I think we should at least wait till it will land in upstream git. Thest patches are backported (mostly straight cherry picks) from upstream qemu git. However, this does depend on kernel support that is not yet upstream. My guess is that won't happen before Linux 4.5. There isn't any production hardware yet that requires this (afaik), but there are eval boards out there. -dann
