> On 9. Mar 2026, at 14:20, Peter Maydell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2026 at 18:03, Mohamed Mediouni <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Link to branch: https://github.com/mediouni-m/qemu hvf-irqchip-and-nested
>> (tag for this submission: hvf-irqchip-and-nested-v19)
>>
>> This series adds support for nested virtualisation when using HVF on arm64
>> Macs.
>>
>> The first two patches are from the SME enablement series and are present for
>> the
>> series to be buildable on its own.
>>
>> It has two parts:
>> - Apple vGICv3 support and necessary infrastructure changes for it
>> - Nested virtualisation support. Note that the nested virtualisation
>> implementation
>> shipping as of macOS 26.3 is nVHE only (but it _does_ use VNCR as shipped).
>>
>> This series doesn't contain EL2 physical timer emulation, which is
>> needed if not leveraging the Apple vGIC. As such, nested virt requires
>> kernel-irqchip=on.
>
> Hi; I think at this point this series has unfortunately missed the
> softfreeze deadline for 11.0, and we should be aiming to get it in
> for early in the 11.1 cycle. I will keep it on my list to apply then.
>
Hello,
That’s quite unfortunate :/ Too close to the softfreeze tomorrow I guess?
Thank you though, think we got quite close to it with even an attempt of a pull
before
last-minute issues resulted in it not getting quite there. Hopefully future
series will go more smoothly
than my first ones :)
Thank you,
-Mohamed
> thanks
> -- PMM
