Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Towards an Heterogeneous QEMU

2015-07-31 Thread Christian Pinto
Hello Paolo, On 31/07/2015 15:10, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 27/07/2015 15:54, Christian Pinto wrote: From the user point of view there is usually an operating system booting on the Master processor (e.g. Linux) at platform startup, while the other processors are used to offload the Master one f

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Towards an Heterogeneous QEMU

2015-07-31 Thread Christian Pinto
Hello Cristopher, On 31/07/2015 14:03, Christopher Covington wrote: Hi Christian, On 07/27/2015 09:54 AM, Christian Pinto wrote: Hi all, this message is to present, and get feedback, on a QEMU enhancement which we are working on. Most of the state-of-the-art SoCs use the heterogeneous paradi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Towards an Heterogeneous QEMU

2015-07-31 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 27/07/2015 15:54, Christian Pinto wrote: > From the user point of view there is usually an operating system > booting on the Master processor (e.g. Linux) at platform startup, > while the other processors are used to offload the Master one from > some computation or to deal with real-time inte

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Towards an Heterogeneous QEMU

2015-07-31 Thread Christopher Covington
Hi Christian, On 07/27/2015 09:54 AM, Christian Pinto wrote: > Hi all, > > this message is to present, and get feedback, on a QEMU enhancement which we > are working on. Most of the state-of-the-art SoCs use the heterogeneous > paradigm, in which a Master processor is surrounded by multiple (Sla

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Towards an Heterogeneous QEMU

2015-07-27 Thread Christian Pinto
Hi all, this message is to present, and get feedback, on a QEMU enhancement which we are working on. Most of the state-of-the-art SoCs use the heterogeneous paradigm, in which a Master processor is surrounded by multiple (Slave) co- processors (other CPUs, MCUs, hardware accelerators, etc) tha