On 24.03.2015 17:13, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 24 March 2015 at 23:55, Sergey Fedorov <serge.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> These patches add support for ARM Fixed Virtual Platform Versatile Express >> board. ARM VFP VE is similar to hardware Versatile Express boards. So these >> changes rely largely on existing QEMU VE support code. First two patches are >> prerequisites for the final patch which adds FVP VE board support itself. >> >> The changes were tested by running a Linux system in SMP mode using >> 'arch/arm64/boot/dts/rtsm_ve-aemv8a.dts' from Linux kernel source code for >> generating device tree blob. > ...so what's the motivation for our attempting to model > somebody else's board model? What do we gain over our > existing VE hardware model? > > -- PMM
This model uses spin table boot method. So it enables SMP on AArch64 in TCG mode. Best regards, Sergey.
