On 25.03.2015 04:06, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 March 2015 at 01:43, Sergey Fedorov <serge.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 24.03.2015 18:30, Sergey Fedorov wrote: >>> So if I understand you correctly, it would be suitable to implement a >>> model like Juno ARM Development Platform in order to get AArch64 VE >>> model with SMP support in system mode? >> As you can guess, my objective is to get a model based on Versatile >> Express with Cortex-A57 CPU which could be used to run an SMP Linux >> kernel on system mode QEMU. So I decided to use the same model as ARM >> FastModels provides. I could get ARMv8-A Foundation Platform model as >> well, but it also uses spin table boot method. Seems there's no much choice. > Basically I'd rather we modelled some bit of real hardware. > I don't see the point in providing a model of somebody > else's model -- if you don't care about matching real > hardware we have 'virt' already. So I don't really want > to model either the Foundation Platform or the AEM, > unless there's a really compelling reason to do that. > > thanks > -- PMM
I understand your view. Unfortunately, I'm not going to implement any other model so far. I'd rather focus on EL2 implementation for AArch64. But maybe someone will find useful these patches :) Thanks, Sergey
