Thanks Peter, I will go through the Xilinx example.
-- Regards, Karthik Poduval On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 8:08 AM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 14:15, karthik poduval <karthik.podu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Was sifting through the heterogeneous QEMU effort in archives here > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg06256.html > > > > Did this effort make it to the mainline ? Are there any examples of > > AMP SoC's in the mainline ? > > In upstream we can handle having asymmetric configurations > as long as all the CPUs are the same basic architecture: > so you can have for instance an Arm Cortex-M and a Cortex-A > in the same board model (there's a xilinx board model > with a mix of cortex-a53 and cortex-r5 cores in the tree). > But we can't handle having multiple different architectures (eg > Arm and x86) in the same board at once. It would be nice to be > able to do that, but it would require a lot of untangling of > things which currently assume various parameters that are > guest-architecture-specific are compile-time fixed things. > So far nobody has been sufficiently interested in having > asymmetric configs to put in that work. > > thanks > -- PMM > -- Regards, Karthik Poduval
